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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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 franchise is an incorporeal hereditament, and arises either from royal grants or from prescription which presupposes a grant.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various
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
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.
From Mark Twain by Archibald Henderson
He concluded that it must be an ancestral hereditament from Athens, Ohio.
From By Advice of Counsel by Arthur Cheney Train
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