Such goods and chattels as, contrary to the nature of chattels, shallgo by special custom to the heir aloug with the inheritance , aud not to the executor.The termination “loom” (Sax.) signifies a limb or member; so that an heirloom isnothing else but a limb or member of the inheritance. They are generally such things ascannot be taken away without damaging or dismembering the freehold; such as deer ina park, doves in a cote, deeds and charters, etc. 2 Bl. Comm. 427.
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