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Heirs and Assigns "Persons who succeed to property by inheritance and any successor to that property. If used in a deed, without further qualification, the words ‘and assigns’ add nothing so that the estate transferred is a fee simple (Milman v Lane [1901] 2 KB 745, 747 (CA); Gardner v. Gardner, 25 Md App 638, 335 A.2d 157, 160 (1975)). At common law, such words were essential to pass such an estate and, although no longer necessary (except in a few jurisdictions in the US), are still used in wills and deeds to indicate that an absolute and unconditional fee simple is to be transferred, as distinguished from the use of the words heirs of the body, which are used to transfer an estate of limited inheritance" Encyclopedia of Real Estate Terms, © Delta Alpha Publishing 2008.