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Definition of Inheritable
1. Adjective. Capable of being inherited. "An inheritable title"
Similar to: Ancestral, Hereditary, Patrimonial, Transmissible, Familial, Genetic, Hereditary, Inherited, Transmissible, Transmitted, Monogenic, Polygenic, Inheriting, Nee
Antonyms: Noninheritable
Definition of Inheritable
1. a. Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title.
Definition of Inheritable
1. Adjective. That can be inherited ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inheritable
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Inheritable
1. 1. Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title. 2. Capable of being transmitted from parent to child; as, inheritable qualities or infirmities. 3. [Cf. OF. Enheritable, inheritable] Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir. "By attainder . . . The blood of the person attainted is so corrupted as to be rendered no longer inheritable." (Blackstone) "The eldest daughter of the king is also alone inheritable to the crown on failure of issue male." (Blackstone) Inheritable blood, blood or relationship by which a person becomes qualified to be an heir, or to transmit possessions by inheritance. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inheritable
Literary usage of Inheritable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Perpetuity: Or, Remoteness in Limitations by William David Lewis (1843)
"As to cases, where there are issue living, of marnage prior to that, the issue
of which are inheritable to the estate- uU. not being confined to a ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1867)
"But, if he prescribes for it in at/ne. estate, it will follow the nature of that
estate in which the prescription is laid, and be inheritable in the same ..."
3. Estates, Future Interests, and Illegal Conditions and Restraints in Illinois by Albert Martin Kales (1920)
"... Rule is that it applies only when "heirs" in a remainder to heirs is used as
a word of limitation embracing the whole line of inheritable succession, ..."
4. Registration of Title to Land: What it Is, why it is Needed, and how it May by Robert Wilson (1863)
"But the condition, while fulfilled, was inoperative; and the proprietor of a
conditional fee, having inheritable issue, might transfer an indefeasible, ..."
5. Rowe's Commercial Law by William Payson Richardson, James Calvin Reed, William A. Sheaffer (1917)
"inheritable estates, and estates for life. Freehold estates include estates for
life and inheritable estates. An estate of inheritance is one that may ..."
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