To this place or document; archaic way of saying 'to this' or 'attached to this.'
Compound of 'here' (Old English 'hēr') and 'to' (Old English 'tō'). Common in legal and formal writing since Middle English, but rarely used in modern speech.
Legal documents love archaic words like 'hereto,' 'thereof,' and 'hereinafter'—not because lawyers need them, but because centuries of tradition mean a will sounds more official and binding when it sounds old-fashioned and formal.
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