"Heir-Looms" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL
Such goods and chat-tels as, contrary to the nature of chattels, shall go hy special custom to the heir along with the inheritance, and not to the ex-ecutor. The termination “loom" (Sax.) sig-niflee a limb or member; so that an heir-loom ls nothlng else but a limb or member of the inheritance. They are generally such thlngs as cannot be taken away wlthout damaging or dismembering the freehold; such as deer ln a park, doves ln a cote, deeds and charters, etc. 2 Bl. Comm. 427
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
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A grizzled old man was eating in a truck stop when three Hell's Angels' bikers walked in. The first walked up to the old man, pushed his cigarette into the old man's pie and then took a seat at the counter. The second walked up to the old man, spat into the old man's milk and then he too took a seat at the counter. The third walked up to the old man, turned over the old man's plate, and then he took a seat at the counter. Without a word of protest, the old man quietly left the diner. Shortly thereafter, one of the bikers said to the waitress, "Humph, not much of a man, was he?" The waitress replied, "Not much of a truck driver either, he just backed his big-rig over three motorcycles."
Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; …
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