[Ads-l] Berkeley and gender neutral words

[Mark Mandel]

The Latin means "No one is an heir or a living person."

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019, 4:35 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> The word [*heir*] is correctly applied to either a male or a female,
> although,
> in the latter sense, heiress n.   has been in general use since 17th
> cent. In Law a person is not called an heir to any property until,
> through the death of its possessor, he becomes entitled to it (
> *nemo est heres viventis*).
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