hereditas (the right of heirship, and the sum of the things belonging to the inheritance): Inheritance by will, hereditas ex testamento; without a wil, hereditas ab intestato (this is called legitima, the lawful, necessary; the former testamentaria; all in the Jurisconsults): an inheritance not yet entered upon, hereditas jacens: a common inheritance, hereditas communis: a joint inheritance, communis herediras, quae ad utrumque aequaliter lege veniebat. To fix one’s heart upon an inheritance, oculos hereditati adjicere; hereditatem persequi: to receive an inheritance, hereditatem consequi or capere: I receive an inheritance, hereditas mihi venit, obvenit; hereditas ad me venit or pervenit: to receive a rich inheritance, adipisci effertissimam hereditatem (Plaut., Capt., 4, 1, 8); magna ac luculenta hereditas alicui obtingit: something comes to me by inheritance, hereditate mihi aliquid venit or obvenit: to have part in an inheritance, habere partem in hereditate; vocari in partem hereditatis: to take possession of an inheritance, hereditatem adire, cernere, adire cernereque; cretionem capere (Plin., 2, 26, 24; figuratively): to decline, refuse an inheritance, se abstinere hereditate; hereditatem omittere, repudiare (Jurisconsulti): to claim and take possession of an inheritance, hereditati se miscere or se immiscere (ib.): to obtain, or to endeavor to obtain, an inheritance surreptitiously, testamentum captare: to exclude anybody from an inheritance, aliquem excludere hereditate.