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hereditament|hɛrɪˈdɪtəmənt, hɪˈrɛdɪtə-|
Also 7 hær-.
[ad. med.L. hērēditāmentum, f. late L. hērēditāre to inherit, f. hērēd-em heir.]
1. Law. Any kind of property that can be inherited; any thing, corporeal or incorporeal, that in the absence of testamentary disposition descended to the heir at common law, and now (Act 60 & 61 Vict. c. 65) to the ‘real representative’; real property.
1475Statute in Campbell Lives Chancellors (1857) I. xxii. 320 The seid John [Fortescue] shuld..forfeit to you, soureyn lord and your heires, all the castelles, maneres..seruices, fees, advousons, hereditaments and possessions. 1483Plumpton Corr. xci, Rents, services, reversions, & heredi[ta]ments. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 650 [A] parlyament, at the whiche y⊇ duke of Alensone was iuged to lose his hede, & his heredytamentys to be forfaytyd vnto y⊇ Kynge. 1571Act 13 Eliz. c. 10. §2 Tythes tenements or other hereditaments. 1628Coke On Litt. 6 a, Haereditament is the largest word in all in that kind, for whatsoever may be inherited is an haereditament, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real or personal or mixt. 1765Blackstone Comm. II. iii. 13 An incorporeal hereditament is a right issuing out of a thing corporate..or concerning, or annexed to, or exercisable within, the same. 1832Austin Jurispr. (1879) I. xiii. 372 A corporeal hereditament is the thing itself which is the subject of the right, an incorporeal hereditament is not the subject of the right but the right itself. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xv. III. 540 The representation of Westmoreland was almost as much one of the hereditaments of the Lowther family as Lowther Hall.
fig.1795J. S. Hobart in J. Jay's Corr. (1893) IV. 196 This power ought to be exercised by the spiritual or the civil rulers solely: it is an hereditament of which they cannot be seized as tenants in common. 1847Bushnell Chr. Nurt. vii. (1861) 178 A kind of hereditament in the family.
2. Heirship, inheritance.
1509–10Act 1 Hen. VIII, c. 19 Preamble, The..Kyng..restored and habled your said Suppliant..in name state degree blode and Hereditament. 1844M. Hennell Social Syst. 50 The natural head of the community was the family father; then the son; and this natural hereditament continued as long as the direct line was maintained. |