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Definition of Hereditament
1. Noun. Any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited.
Definition of Hereditament
1. n. Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir.
Definition of Hereditament
1. Noun. (legal) Property which can be inherited. ¹
2. Noun. Inheritance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hereditament
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hereditament
Literary usage of Hereditament
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"Character of an incorporeal hereditament.—An incorporeal hereditament is a right
issuing out of a thing corporate (whether real or personal) or concerning, ..."
2. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted, to by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"should be added that the actual decision in the GW Ry v. Swindon & Cheltenham Ry
scarcely proceeded on the exact meaning of " hereditament." Vh, R. \. ..."
3. A Practical Treatise of Assets, Debts and Incumbrances by James Ram (1835)
"REMEDY TO OBTAIN PAYMENT OF AN ANNUITY, CHARGED ON AN INCORPOREAL hereditament.
It is said that a subject cannot, by the common ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Irrigation and Water Rights: And the Arid Region by Clesson Selwyne Kinney (1912)
"A water right is an incorporeal hereditament.—A water right is descendible by
inheritance; and, being neither tangible nor visible, it is an incorporeal ..."
5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"It is nn incorporeal hereditament, an easement which does not necessarily divest
... The easement of "right of way" is a strictly Incorporeal hereditament, ..."
6. The Modern Law of Real Property: With an Introduction for the Student, and by Louis Arthur Goodeve (1885)
"hereditament. The word ' hereditament' is the largest word of all in that kind,
says Lord Coke, for whatsoever may be inherited is a hereditament, ..."
7. Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American Or English Jurisprudence by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott (1879)
"The word hereditament is almost as comprehensive as " property." 3 Kent Com. 401.
A condition, if descendible, is a hereditament ; though not embraced in a ..."
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