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hereditament

NOUN
  1. any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited

How To Use hereditament In A Sentence

  • Seisin is a legal word, which simply means possession, or rather the bodily holding of a thing, and is used especially of corporeal hereditaments. Mary Anerley
  • Corporeal hereditaments are physical objects: the physical land and its attachments.
  • They ... they are appurtenances, and — ­and hereditaments, and such things. CHAPTER X
  • The title to the hereditaments, now to be given in exchange, went back for many generations; but as the deeds were not to pass, Mr. Jellicorse, like an honest man, drew a line across, and made a star at one quite old enough to begin with, in which the little moorland farm in treaty now was specified. Mary Anerley
  • The Confederacy would therefore now seize all ‘lands, hereditaments, goods and chattels, rights and credits’ owned by Northern citizens in the South.
  • Section 4, the definition section in the 1875 Act, provided ‘Lands’ and ‘Premises’ include messuages buildings lands easements and hereditaments of any nature’.
  • 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
  • Yesterday's term was hereditament, which is defined as: Define That Term #65
  • 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]
  • The view from the lonely and segregated mountain peak, of this portion of what is called and known as the Creation, with all and singular the hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto appertaining and belonging…4 Mark Twain
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