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Families Emptor

In Roman law. An Intermediate person who purchased the aggregate lnheritance when sold per ms ei libram, in the process of making a will un-der the Twelve Tables. This purchaser was merely a man of straw, transmitting the In-heritance to the hares proper. Brown

Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)