• heir: hēres, ēdis,
c.:
to leave any one h. by will, aliquem h. ex testamento relinquere,
Cic. Quint. 4, 14: more
freq. simply, h. facere, with or without testamento,
Cic. (the frequent. factitare h.,
Cic. Phil. 2, 16, 41, denotes
the repeated promise to make any one h.); instituere (a more formally legal
expr.),
Cic. Clu. 7, 22:
Dig. Sole h., h. ex asse,
Quint. 7, 1, 20 (but we find also the more emphatic and less tech.
expr., heres omnibus bonis institutus,
Plin. 7, 36, 36: h. ex libella in
Cic. Att. 7, 2, 3, is of very doubtful meaning): simly., with the fractions of the as,
h. to one-half, one-third, h. ex semisse, ex triente (
cf. L. G. § 929): but also h. ex dimidia parte, tertia parte,
Cic. Fam. 13, 29, med. H. in reversion (i. e. in case of failure to inherit on the part of the heirs), secundus h.,
Cic. (v.
Dict. Ant. s. v.).