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adjective
Heritable  adj.  
1.
Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance; inheritable.
2.
Capable of inheriting or receiving by inheritance. "This son shall be legitimate and heritable."
Heritable rights (Scots Law), rights of the heir; rights to land or whatever may be intimately connected with land; realty.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Heritable" Quotes from Famous Books



... to ruin; but, as has been observed of his countrymen, he kept a man of business, who answered the purpose equally well. Under this gentleman's supervision small debts grew into large, interests were accumulated upon capitals, movable bonds became heritable, and law charges were heaped upon all; though Ellangowan possessed so little the spirit of a litigant, that he was on two occasions charged to make payment of the expenses of a long lawsuit, although he had never before ...
— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott
... now? Praedial slavery completely abolished; heritable jurisdictions at an end; the face of the country entirely changed; its agriculture acknowledged to be the first in the world; its mines and fisheries productive in the highest degree; its banking a model of efficiency and public usefulness; its roads equal ...
— The Life of Thomas Telford by Smiles • Samuel Smiles


Words linked to "Heritable" :   inheritable, transmissible, ancestral, monogenic, nee, polygenic, patrimonial, transmitted, inherited


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