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Hereditaments

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

Things capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, and including not only lands and everything thereon, but also heir-looms, and certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir together with the land. Co. Litt. 56; 2 Bl. Comm. Wis The two kinds of hereditaments are corpoveal, which are tangible, (in fact, they mean the same thing as land,) and incorporeal, which are not tangible, and are the rights and profits annexed to or issuing out of land. Wharton. expression fer real property of all kinds, and is therefore employed in conveyances after tha words ‘“Jands" and “tenements,” to include everything of the nature of realty which they do not cover.

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