Hereditaments
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
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 5 6; 2 Bla. Com. 17; Chal. R. P. 43; Oskaloosa Water Co. v. City of Oskaloosa, 84 la. 407, 61 N. W. 18, 15 L. R. A. 296.
By this terra such things are denoted as may be the subject-matter of inheritance, but not the Inheritance itself; it cannot, therefore, by its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate prima fame a life estate, into a fee; 2 B. & P. 251; 8 Terra 503.