Hæreditas, alia corporalis, alia incorporalis: Corporalis est, quæ tangi potest et videri: Incorporalis, quæ tangi non potest nec videri.
Inheritance, one kind is substantial, and another unsubstantial—the substantial is what can be touched and seen—the unsubstantial, what cannot be touched nor seen.
Hæreditas est successio in universum jus quod defunctus habuerit.
Inheritance is the succession to the universal right which the deceased had.
Hæreditas ex dimidio sanguine non datur.
Inheritance is not granted from half-blood.
Hæreditas nihil aliud est, quam successio in universum jus quod defunctus habuerit.
Inheritance is nothing else than the succession to the whole right which the deceased may have had.
Hæreditates recta linea debent descendere, sed non ascendunt.
Inheritances ought to descend in a direct line; but do not ascend.