hereditament
Americannoun
noun
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any kind of property capable of being inherited
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property that before 1926 passed to an heir if not otherwise disposed of by will
Etymology
Origin of hereditament
1425–75; late Middle English < Medieval Latin hērēditāmentum, derivative of Late Latin hērēditāre. See hereditable, -ment
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English title in a pew is in the nature of a right of way through another's land; it is an incorporeal hereditament.
From The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law by Charles M. Scanlan
The hereditament of a Peer: also rank of a Peer; a list of the Peers.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting
But that indigence which had prompted the knight to forsake his courtly country for the howling wilderness, was the only remaining hereditament left to his bedwindled descendants in the fourth and fifth remove.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
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.
From Mark Twain by Archibald Henderson
A hereditament is a thing capable of being inherited.
From The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. by Andrew W. Young
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