1. heres (one that enters into the rights and obligations of a dead person, according to the civil law; by the praetorian law, he was called possessor bonorum; figuratively, for successor; e.g., heres artis; Vid: Plin., 36, 4, 6). The sole heir, heres ex asse, heres ex libella (Vid: Plin., Ep. 8, 18, 7; Cic., Att., 7, 2, 3); heres omnibus bonis institutus (Plin., 7, 36, 36): the substituted heir (i. e., the one who, after the death of the first, or, in the event of his incapacity to inherit, enters upon the inheritance), heres secundus; heres substitutus (Quint., 7, 6, 10): an heir to the half, third part, etc., heres ex dimidia parte, ex tertia parte or ex teruncio: an heir of eleven twelfths, heres ex deunce: to be heir to anybody, alicui (not alicujus) heredem esse or exsistere: to make anybody one’s heir, aliquem heredem instituere; aliquem heredem (testamento) scribere, facere; aliquem heredem nuncupare (this the proper word, if it be done before witnesses orally; also with voce; a will so made is called nuncupatum testamentum): to substitute anybody as one’s heir, aliquem heredem secundum instituere or scribere; aliquem heredem substituere (Quint., 7, 6, 10): to make anybody an heir equally with one’s sons, testamento aliquem pariter cum filiis heredem instituere: to put in as heir with others, aliquem inter heredes nuncupare: to put in as sole heir, aliquem heredem ex asse instituere; aliquem palam facere ex libella (Cic., Att. 7, 2, 3); aliquem heredem omnibus bonis instituere (Plin. 7, 36, 36): to leave anybody one’s heir, aliquem heredem relinquere testamento: to come into a good property, as heir to anybody, relinqui ab aliquo in amplis opibus heredem: to settle with the other heirs, conficere cum coheredibus (of principal heirs, ☞ Cic., Fam., 7, 2, 2): to dispossess the true heirs, movere veros heredes; veros heredes ejicere (by force) to leave no heirs, sine liberis decedere; alieno herede mori: to leave or have no male heir, virilem sexum non relinquere.