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fo that the tail is {"pent, and C. enters, thefe lands (hall land, five leagues north from North Vift Hland. Lat. 
be a'ffets to aniwer the debt of his father. Cartk. 127. The 57.46. N. Ion. 4. 38. W. Edinburgh, 
lands, as obferved above, mu ft defeend to the heir ; and HE1SS. (John), lord of Kogepheim, refident for the 
therefore it was formerly held, that if he took by pur- elector palatine at the court of France ; where he efta- 
chafe, as if the teftator devifed them to him, paying lb blifhed his literary character by a ILftory of the G.er- 
much, or if he devifed lands to one of the two, and his man Empire, fir ft publifhedat Paris in 1684, 2 vols.4to.' 
heirs at law jointly, that thofelands were not affets; and reprinted with augmentations by M. Vogel, in 1731, 
but if he devifed one part to A. another to B. and another. 3 vols. 4to. It has been charged with want of fidelity ; 
to his heirat law, this third part was affets. Cro.Eliz. 431. yet it is not unfrequently referred to, as authority. This 
By the ftatute of frauds and perjuries, (29 Car.11 .c.3.) author died at Paris in 1688. 
it is enafted,that if lands come to the heir by reafon of a HEIST, a town of Germany, in Weftphalia, and prin- 
fpeeial occupancy, they fhall be chargeable in his hands cipality of NafTau Siegen : four miles north-nortli-weft 
as affets by defcer.t, as in cafes of lands in fee-fimple ; of Siegen. 
and in cafe there be no fpecial occupant thereof, it (hall HEl'STER (Laurence), an eminent phyfician and 
. go to the executors or adminillrators of the party that phyliologift, born in 1683 at Frankfort on the Maine, 
had the eftate thereof by virtue of the graint, and (hall After a liberal education in the German univerfities, he 
be alfets in their hands. Alfo by the faid ftatute, where ftudied anatomy at Amfterdam, in 1706, under Ruyfch 
lands are fettled in truft, and defeend in fee to the heir and Ran. In the following year he attended as a fur- 
of ceftuy que trujl • the fame fhall be affets in the fame geon in the Dutch camp in Brabant; and when it broke 
manner as lands in pofTeffion, but he (hall not by reafon up for the winter, he purfued-his medical ftudies at Ley- 
of any plea or other matter be chargeable to pay the den under Boerhaave and other eminent profeftors, and 
condemnation out of his own eftate. 2 Fern. 248. took his doefor’s degree. He returned to the camp in 
An equity of redemption of an inheritance is aflets; 1708 ; and, in 1709 was appointed phylidan-general to 
for the heir having a right in equity,"that ought in equity the Dutch military hofpital. I11T710, he was made 
to fatisfy a bond debt. 4 Chanc. Caf. 148. Tenant in tail profeffor of anatomy at Altdorf, and became celebrated 
fufters a recovery to let in a mortgage of 500 years, then by his lectures and writings. In 1720 he removed to 
limits the land to the old ufes, and makes his will, and the university of Helmftadt, and pafled tliere the remain." 
devifes all his lands for the payment of his debts ; the der of his life. The czar, Peter, gave him an invitation 
redemption was limited to him, his heirs and afligns ; to Ruflia; but he could not be perfuaded to quit Ger- 
and the court thought that the equity of redemption of many, where he enjoyed the efteem of feveral fovereigns. 
this mortgage, (hould be aflets to fatisfy creditors, or a He died at the height of his profeflional acquirements, 
fubfequent grantee of an annuity. Preccd. Chanc. 39. A in 1758. In anatomy he w*as the author of a number of 
1 right, without any eftate in polfeflion, reverfion, or re- detached eflays and obfervations ; but his principal work 
mainder, is not affets till it be recovered and reduced into in'this department is his Compendium Anatomicum, firft 
pofleflion. 6 Co. 5S. For more on this fubjedl, fee the printed in 1717, and many times reprinted with fuccef- 
article Assets, vol. ii. p. 283. five additions, and tranflated into various languages. 
HEI'RAN, a town of Arabia, in the province of Ye- In furgery he became celebrious by being the author of 
myn : thirty-fix miles fouth of Abu-Anfch. another capital work, Inhibitions of Surgery, pub- 
HEIR'DOM, / Succefiion by inheritance.—The Mr- liftted firft at German, 1718; tranflated into Latin by 
, dom per Jlripcs took place. Burke,. ■ Frobefius, under the title 01 [njlitutiones Chirurgia, Amjl. 
HEIR'ESS, y. The female heir to a man, having an 1739, 4 t0 - anc * many times edited in thole languages, and 
eftate of inheritance inlands; and where theroare fe- in molt of the European tongues. In medicine, his prin- 
veral joint heirs, they are called co-heirs or co-heirejfes. cipal works are, 1. Obfervationes Medico-mifcdlanece, 'theoretica 
HEIR'LESS, adj. Without an heir ; wanting one to &p radices, 4to. 2. De Medicine mechanic# prop}antia, 410. 
3. Compendium Injlitutionum & Fundamentorum Medicince, yto. 
After his death, was published a Collection of Medical, 
Chirurgical, and Anatomical, Obfervations, 2 vols. 4to. 
HEISTE'RA,y [lo named by Jacquin in honour of 
Laurence Heijler , the fubjeCf of.the preceding article.] In 
botany, a genus of the clafs decandria, order monogy- 
a, natural order of holoraceae, (aurantia, JuJf.) The 
inherit after him : 
I (till think of 
The wrong I did myfelf ;/ which was fo much. 
That keirlefs it hath made my kingdom. Skakefpeare. 
. HEIR'LOOM, y. [hares, Lat. heir, and geloma, Sax. 
goods.] In law, comprehends divers implements of the . _ 
houfehold, fuch as the firftbeft bed and other things, generic characters are—Calyx: perianthium ime-leafed, 
which by the cuftora of fome countries have belonged bell-(haped, five-cleft, acute, fmall, permanent. Co- 
to a houfe for certain defeents, and are never inventoried rolla : petals five, ovate, acute,” concave, fpreading. 
after the deceafe of the owner as chattels, nor do they Stamina : filaments ten, ovate, acute, flat, upright ; al¬ 
go to the executor, but accrue, to the heir with the houfe ternately (hotter ; antherae roundifh. Piftilliun : germ 
itfelf by cuftorn, and not by the common .law ; thefe are roundilh, flatted; ftyle upright, (hort; ftigma four-cleft, 
not devifable by teftament; for the law prefers the cuf- obtufe. Pericarpium; drupe oblong, flatted at the 
tom before a devife, which takes not effedt till after the tip ; placed on a very large coloured calyx. Seed : 
death of the teftator, and'then they are veiled in the heir nut oval, obtufe .—EJfenlial CharaElcr. Calyx, five-cleft; 
by the cuftorn. Co. Lit. 185. But fale in a man’s life- petals, five; drupe with a very large coloured calyx, 
time might make it otherwife. The ancient jewels of Heiftera coccinea, a (ingle fpecies. It is an inelegant 
the crown are heirlodms, and (hall defeend to the next branching tree, twenty feet in height. Leaves oblong, 
fuccefior ; and are not devifable by will. 1 Injl. 185. quite entire, drawing to a fickle-fiuiped point, ftiining, on 
And heirlooms in general are faid to extend to all large (hort petioles, alternate, half a foot in' length. Flowers 
houfehold implements not eafily moved. PerHoltCh.J, fmall, peduncled, axillary, with white corollas ; calyx, 
goods in grofs cannot be an heirloom, but they mud be in the flower fmall and green, pi the fruit fcarlet, with 
things fixed to the freehold, as old benches, tables, &c. a very large fpreading limb, and Ihort, very bluiit, round- 
12 Mod. 51.9. i(h, fegments. Native of Martinico, in clofe woods near 
HEIR'SHIP,y. The ftate, character, or privileges, of torrents; flowering in February and March, and fruit- 
an heir.—A layman appoints an heir or an executor in ing in June. The French inhabitants call it boisperdrix, 
his will, to build an hofpital within a year, under pain birds being very fond of the fruit. See Polygala. 
.of being deprived of his heirjhip. Aylijfe. HEI'TERNSHRIM, or Heyterschem, a town, and 
BEIS'KER ISLANDS, two Imall iflands of Scot- priory, and principality, of Germany, on the Upper 
Rhine. 
