Moștenitor, erede, moștenire. Interpretare prin traducere juridică
Heir, successor, inheritance. Interpretation through legal translation

Summary/Abstract: Understanding legal terminology is a challenge not only for people uninitiated in the mysteries of the field, but also for lawyers, especially when they have to decipher how to interpret the legal norms of foreign legislation and the terms used by each legislator. Thus, in matters of succession, in the Anglo American legal system the heir can be perceived in a multivalent manner because of the various meanings given to this concept in foreign legislation. The continuation of the personality of the deceased is a consequence of the legal characteristics of the estate. In other words, inheritance could be understood as a hidden side of the person, which is activated upon his death. The death of a person is an event that occurs in any society and legislation, but it is perceived in a different way by the legislator. These differences are particularly noticeable in the Anglo American legal system, which has established various names for what is meant by the inheritance and the heir, depending on the nature of the assets found in the estate. At the same time, in the Anglo American legal system it was considered that the term “inheritance” could also include that of “trust”, as a way of managing and transmitting assets. In the French legal system, the reserve of succession was named and translated differently compared to common law systems. Our paper aims to analyze the possible standardization of legal terminology in matters of succession through the way the concepts are understood and used. This standardization combines elements borrowed from both common law and the Romano Germanic system.

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