heredium

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noun In early Rom. law, the homestead or hereditary domain allotted as the private property of a citizen, and which was inheritable and alienable. It comprised space for house, yard, and garden—usually about one and a quarter acres.

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Tables for villa, which was the word in classical times for the homestead, was _hortus_, a garden, and that this was _heredium_, private property.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
Ciacconium de Numis et Pon - deribus p. 134. corrigrere: Bina iugera quae aRomulo pr.div. dicebantur viritim, quod haeredemfeq. heredium appella 'runt.

Scriptorvm rei rvsticae vetervm latinorvm tomvs primvs-[qvartvs].. 1794
There can, however, be no doubt that it possessed in its own right a small piece of garden ground (_heredium_), and also an allotment of land in the arable laid out by the settlers in common -- _centuriatus ager_; whether the ownership of this was vested in the individual paterfamilias or in the gens as a whole, does not greatly matter for our purposes. [

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884