INSTITUTION OF HEIR, civil law. The act by which a testator nominates one or
more persons to succeed him in all his rights, active and passive. Poth. Tr.
des Donations Testamentaires, c. 2, s. 1, Sec. 1; Civ. Code of Lo. art.
1598; Dig. lib. 28, tit. 5, l. 1; and lib. 28, tit. 6, l. 2, Sec. 4.