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Latin. A raven-like contract on the inheritance of the living. An agreement concerning the succession of one still living. Among the Romans, any agreement on the part of an heir to sell his right of succession during the life of his ancestor, was forbidden as contra bonos mores; as also was any obligation which was to be discharged by the heir out of the succession of his ancestor, when this had devolved upon him by the ancestor's death. A different rule obtains in Scotland and England, where it is quite lawful for the heir to dispose of his spes successionis, or to burden ...