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TAKE THE QUIZ“necessarius”
The following 2 entries include the term necessarius.
heres necessarius
noun: a slave who is instituted by his master as his heir and who upon his master's death automatically attains his freedom and becomes his heir
suus et necessarius heres
noun: a family heir including a slave in the paternal power of a decedent at the latter's death who by Roman law becomes sui juris and succeeds to the decedent's property by intestacy or by will
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