BENEFICIUM SEPARATIONIS

beneficium separationis (ben-[schwa]-fish-ee-[schwa]m sep-[schwa]-ray-shee-oh-nis). [Latin “privilege of separation”] Roman law. The right of a creditor of the deceased to have the property of the deceased separated from an heir’s property. • This separation protected the creditors by ensuring that the deceased’s property was not used to pay the heir’s creditors. — Also termed separatio bonorum.