-NORMAN-FRENCH: fee taille, taule (Britt. 89 a, 216 b); LOW LATIN: feodum talliatum, from tailler, talliare, to cut or "limit to some 24. Lineal - Collateral -- Wholeblood - Half-blood, &c., &c.-With reference to the nature and degree of the relationship between the ancestor and the heir: (1) Formerly a person was said to be "lineal-heir," if he was lineally descended from his ancestor, as son, grandson, &c.; for descent could not be traced lineally upwards from son to father, but now an heir (when distinguishable from "cow"). may be a lineal descendant or a lineal 8 Allen (Mass.) 403, 404. ancestor; (2) a collateral heir is related to his ancestor by being descended with him HEINECCIUS was born at Eisenberg from a common progenitor, as in the case in 1681, became professor in Halle, and of brothers, cousins, nephew and uncle died in 1741. He wrote numerous works &c.; (3) an heir of the whole-blood is on Roman law, which, though somewhat descended from the same pair of progeni out of date, are still occasionally referred to. The principal, are the Elementa Juris Civilis and the Antiquitatum Syntagma. Holtz. Encycl. hæres. HEIR.-NORMAN-FRENCH: heire; from Latin, 1. The word heir, when used to describe or designate a given person, includes three classes: Heirs-at-law, or heirs, simply; heirs apparent; and heirs presumptive. 2. Heir-at-law. - An heir, or heir-atlaw, is a person who stood in such a degree of relationship to a deceased person, called the "ancestor," that the property of the latter has descended to him, or would have descended to him if the ancestor had died intestate. The mode in which the relationship is to be computed is regulated by the canons of descent. See DESCENT. tors as his ancestor, while (4) an heir of the half-blood and his ancestor have only one common progenitor. Thus, A., and B., his wife, have two sons, X. and Y.: B. dies, and A. marries C., and they have a son Z.; here Y. is heir of the full-blood to X., but only heir of the half-blood to Z.; (5) heirs of the part of the father are those related by blood to the father of the ancestor (e. g. a paternal uncle), and (6) heirs of the part of the mother are those related by blood to the mother of the ancestor (Co. Litt. 12a), but this distinction is not now of importance (see DESCENT, 812); (7) heir by propinquity is where the heir takes as being the nearest blood relation, as opposed to (8) heir by representation, where he takes as representing or standing in the place of his ancestor. Id. 10 b. See the fourth canon of descent, 3. At common law: CustomaryGeneral-Special. With reference to DESCENT, 25. The following distinctions the rules of descent, by virtue of which they are not now of practical interest: Immeinherit, heirs are of the following kinds: diate heir was formerly used to signify (1) The heir at common law is he to whom his ancestor's land, &c., descend according to the common law as modified by the Inheritance Act, as opposed to (2) a customary heir or secial heir, (Co. Litt. 376a, that the heir was heir apparent or presumptive at the death of the ancestor, as opposed to the case where there is an intermediate descent without seisin. (See DESCENT, 23 and note (6); Vin. Abr. Heir