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Heritable adj.

Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance; inheritable.

Capable of inheriting or receiving by inheritance. "This son shall be legitimate and heritable."

Heritable rights (Scots Law), rights of the heir; rights to land or whatever may be intimately connected with land; realty.

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Etymology of 'Heritable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Heritable" Quotes from Famous Books

... settled in Galloway for many generations. Sir James, the head of the house, was one of the first lawyers of the day, and had held the Chair of Philosophy in the University of Glasgow: the son, Sir John (afterwards to earn an undying name in history as prime mover in the Massacre of Glencoe), was heritable Baillie in the regality of Glenluce. There had been bad blood between them and Claverhouse for some time past. The father had not profited sufficiently by his studies either in law or philosophy to recognise the folly of a man in disgrace venturing to ...

— Claverhouse • Mowbray Morris

... long at least as it was confined to Roman jurisprudence, carried with it no suggestion whatever of a difference in dignity. The Res Mancipi, however, did certainly at first enjoy a precedence over the Res Nec Mancipi, as did heritable property in Scotland and realty in England, over the personalty to which they were opposed. The lawyers of all systems have spared no pains in striving to refer these classifications to some intelligible principle; but the reasons of the severance must ever ...

— Ancient Law - Its Connection to the History of Early Society • Sir Henry James Sumner Maine

Words linked to "Heritable" : familial, inheriting, monogenic, nee, ancestral, transmitted, inheritable