Lewis Short
(verb) : hercisco or ercisco, ĕre, contr. from herctum or erctum and cisco, as a v. inch. from cieo; cf. herctum, in the old jurid. lang.
* To proceed to the division of an inheritance, to divide an inheritance.
* Lit.: idcirco qui, quibus verbum herctum cieri oporteat, nesciat, idem herciscundae familiae causam agere non possit,Cic. de Or. 1, 56, 237: arbitrum familiae herciscundae postulavit,id. Caecin. 7, 19; Dig. 10, 2; cf. App. M. 9, p. 229.
* Transf.: nos viae herciscundae contendentes,i. e. disputing as to which way we should take,App. M. 6, p. 186.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary