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heriotable, a.|ˈhɛrɪətəb(ə)l|
[See -able.]
Subject or liable to the payment of heriots.
1598Kitchin Courts Leet (1675) 269 The Husband and Wife and their Son purchase Lands joyntly Harriotable. 1607Norden Surv. Dial. 102 It behoveth the Lord to know, who be the tenants..belonging to an heriotable tenement, because every part continueth heriotable. 1777Nicolson & Burn Hist. Westm. & Cumb. I. 174 The tenants are chiefly customary and heriotable. 1889Jessopp Coming of Friars v. 225 Richard..protested that his land was not heriotable. |