Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Property that can be inherited.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, or anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir in the strict sense (see
heir , 1); inheritable property, as distinguished from property which necessarily terminates with the life of the owner, and, according to some writers, as distinguished in modern times from personal assets which go to the executor or administrator instead of the heir.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law Property which can be
inherited . - noun
Inheritance .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The word hereditament muft, I think, be as operative as the words real eftate.
Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, in the time of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. [1736-1754] Sanders, Francis Williams, 1769-1831, ed 1794
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Yesterday's term was hereditament, which is defined as:
Define That Term #65 2006
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Yesterday's term was hereditament, which is defined as:
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It's more important for you to think your way out of a legal dilemma than to remember that incorporeal hereditament is an inchoate or intangible right.
Perry Binder: 8 Things Your Prof Cares (or Doesn't Care) About in Class Perry Binder 2011
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It's more important for you to think your way out of a legal dilemma than to remember that incorporeal hereditament is an inchoate or intangible right.
Perry Binder: 8 Things Your Prof Cares (or Doesn't Care) About in Class Perry Binder 2011
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And yet, my lord, if I could but be made certiorate that my natural hereditament of
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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Almelo, a Bachelor in Physic or Medicine, began to prepare a place for a monastery; for of their own free will and by his council they had determined to build an house in Vrensueghen upon an hereditament that is called Enoldint.
The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes �� Kempis Thomas
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His Southern hereditament of chivalry, his compassion for the oppressed and his defence of the down-trodden, were never in abeyance from the beginning of his career to the very end.
Mark Twain Archibald Henderson 1920
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An advowson, regarded by the law as property, is termed an incorporeal hereditament, "a right issuing out of a thing corporate."
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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He concluded that it must be an ancestral hereditament from Athens, Ohio.
By Advice of Counsel Arthur Cheney Train 1910
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