| 单词 | passive title |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspassive title passive title n. Scots Law (now historical and rare) the legal position or right of an heir or executor who comes to be held liable for the debts of a dead person after having accepted his or her property. ΚΠ 1693 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. (ed. 2) iii. vi. §3 The Reason of introducing this passive Title, is in favour of Creditors, that they be not un-satisfied, or shifted by the Heirs of the defunct Creditors. 1773 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. II. iii. viii. §87 That apparent heirs might not, upon gratuitous dispositions from their ancestors, enjoy their estates without being liable for their debts, the passive title of præceptio was introduced. 1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) 615 A passive title, by which the heir, without acquiring an active title, as by service or confirmation, tacitly and by implication subjects himself to the responsibilities belonging to the character of heir. 1955 Ld. Guthrie in Sc. Law Times 348 It appears that the deceased's next of kin are neither lucrati by his succession, nor have they intromitted with his estate so as to acquire a passive title. < as lemmas |
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