Hereditament

Word HEREDITAMENT
Character 12
Hyphenation her e dit a ment
Pronunciations /hɛɹɪˈdɪtəmənt/

Definitions and meanings of "Hereditament"

What do we mean by hereditament?

Property that can be inherited. 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. noun

Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir. noun

Property which can be inherited. noun

Inheritance. noun

Any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited noun

Property which can be inherited.

Inheritance.

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The word "hereditament" in example sentences

The word hereditament muft, I think, be as operative as the words real eftate. ❋ Sanders, Francis Williams, 1769-1831, Ed (1794)

Yesterday's term was hereditament, which is defined as: ❋ Unknown (2006)

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 (2011)

And yet, my lord, if I could but be made certiorate that my natural hereditament of ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ �� Kempis Thomas (N/A)

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. ❋ Archibald Henderson (1920)

An advowson, regarded by the law as property, is termed an incorporeal hereditament, "a right issuing out of a thing corporate." ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

He concluded that it must be an ancestral hereditament from Athens, Ohio. ❋ Arthur Cheney Train (1910)

It became a habit of the Irish Party, in its more decadent days, to spout out long litanies of its achievements and to claim credit, as a sort of hereditament no doubt, for the reforms won under the leadership of Parnell. ❋ Unknown (1910)

That “disposition for hard hitting with a moral purpose to sanction it,” which George Meredith pronounces the national disposition of British humour, is Mark Twain's unmistakable hereditament. ❋ Henderson, Archibald (1910)

Commons an incorporeal hereditament fully recognized by law. ❋ Brooks Adams (1887)

THIS faith of Timothy, which is but another name for the grace of life in his character, the apostle speaks of here, it will be seen, as a kind of personal hereditament, or heir-loom in the family. ❋ 1802-1876 (1876)

--- And yet, my lord, if I could but be made certiorate that my natural hereditament of Drumthwacket had fallen into possession of any of these loons of Covenanters, who could be, in the event of our success, conveniently made a traitor of, I have so much value for that fertile and pleasant spot, that I would e'en take on with you for the campaign. '' ❋ Unknown (1871)

In the misuse you have already made of legal terms you have converted an incorporeal hereditament into lands and tenements, and pray, sir, how can a planet shrouded in a cimmerian opacity shed light. ❋ Unknown (1862)

_ The hereditament of a Peer: also rank of a Peer; a list of the Peers. ❋ Charles Boutell (1844)

In this country, on the other hand, we confine the hereditament to property, abrogating it in the case of rank and power. ❋ Jacob Abbott (1841)

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