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Webster 1913 Edition
Heritable
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
. Sir M. Hale.
Heritable rights
(Scots Law)
, rights of the heir; rights to land or whatever may be intimately connected with land; realty.
Jacob (Law Dict.).
Webster 1828 Edition
Heritable
HER'ITABLE
,Adj.
1.
Capable of inheriting, or taking by descent. By the canon law this son shall be legitimate and heritable.
2.
That may be inherited. [This is the true sense.]3.
Annexed to estates of inheritance. In Scot's law, heritable rights are all rights that affect lands or other immovables.