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
Example Sentences
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He concluded that it must be an ancestral hereditament from Athens, Ohio.
From By Advice of Counsel by Train, Arthur Cheney
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 Young, Andrew W.
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 Henderson, Archibald
In legal language, it was an incorporeal hereditament.
From The Theory of Social Revolutions by Adams, Brooks
In this country, on the other hand, we confine the hereditament to property, abrogating it in the case of rank and power.
From Charles I Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob
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