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heritable, a. (n.)|ˈhɛrɪtəb(ə)l|
Also 4–8 here-.
[a. F. héritable (1206 in Godef.) f. hériter: see herit v.]
1. Capable of being inherited, inheritable; in Sc. and Civil Law, said esp. of property, or rights pertaining thereto, that pass by inheritance to heirs-at-law, as distinguished from movable property or rights, which do not so descend.
heritable jurisdictions, grants of criminal jurisdiction bestowed on some of the Scottish nobility with a view to the more easy and prompt administration of justice. Abolished 1747 by Act 20 Geo. II, c. 43.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Machor 92 He gaf of heretable rycht To godis seruice al þat ton. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xiv. 14 The kyng..dyd gyue hym cccc. markis sterlyngis of rent heritable, to hold of hym in fee. 1632Lithgow Trav. 62 Ithaca..was the heretable Kingdome of the worthy Ulysses. 1687Royal Proclam. in Lond. Gaz. No. 2221/4 No Law, Custom or Constitution..can..Restrain Us from conferring Heretable Rights and Priviledges upon them. 1689Proc. Convent. Est. Scotl. in Somers Tracts II. 387 Imposing them where there were heritable Offices and Jurisdictions. 1746–7Act 20 Geo. II, c. 43 §1 All Heretable Jurisdictions of Justiciary, and all Regalities and Heretable Baillieries..shall be..abrogated, taken away, and totally dissolved and extinguished. 1766W. Gordon Gen. Counting-ho. 463 Inventory of the moveable and heretable estate. 1832Austin Jurispr. (1879) I. xiv. 392 The rights descendible to heirs as distinguished from those descendible to executors or administrators are in the law of Scotland denoted by the appropriate term heritable. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. ii. ii. §7 Other examples of property which ought not to have been created, are properties in public trusts; such as..the heritable jurisdictions.
b. Sc. Law. Pertaining to or connected with heritable property.
heritable bond, a bond for a sum of money, to which is joined, for the creditor's further security, a conveyance of land or of heritage, to be held by the creditor in security of the debt. heritable security, security either constituted by infeftment in favour of the creditor, or depending on the force of a condition qualifying the right of property (Bell Dict. Law Scotl.).
c1575Balfour's Practicks (1754) 221 The executouris may not be callit..to warrand ony heritabill infeftment or dispositioun maid be the deid befoir his deceis. 1801Hist. Europe in Ann. Reg. 134/2 The value of what, in that part of the Island, is called heritable security. Mod. (Title of Company, Edin.), Heritable Securities and Mortgage Investment Association Limited.
2. Naturally transmissible or transmitted from parent to offspring; hereditary.
1570Buchanan Ane Admonit. Wks. (1892) 32 Arrogance, crueltie, dissimulatioun, and heretabill tressoun. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. li. 7 Sinne floweth by infection intoo the offspring, and is as it were heritable. 1784De Lolme Eng. Const. i. iii. (ed. 4) 40 Heritable forms of devotions and creeds. 1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 45 No heritable disease in the family.
3. Of persons: Capable of inheriting or taking by descent; succeeding by right of inheritance.
c1575Balfour's Practicks (1754) 289 The heritabill proprietar of the saidis landis. a1661Fuller Worthies, Worc. iii. (1662) 171 His wife..being a Double Inheritrix..indented with Husband, that her Heritable Issue should assume her Surname. 1737J. Chamberlayne's St. Gt. Brit. ii. i. ii. 292 The Earl of Cassilis is Heritable Bailiff of Carrick. 1886J. Small in Encycl. Brit. XXI. 496/1 Heritable officers who had fought against the prince were only suspended, not deposed.
B. n. pl. (Sc. Law). Heritable possessions; lands and other property that passes to the heir-at-law.
1801A. Ranken Hist. France I. 278 The peaceable possession of..heritables or immovables. 1888J. Williams in Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 574/1 Except where there has been vitious intromission in movables, and in gestio pro herede and some other cases in heritables. |