The word hereditament muft, I think, be as operative as the words real eftate. From Wordnik.com. [Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, in the time of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. [1736-1754]] Reference
Yesterday's term was hereditament, which is defined as. From Wordnik.com. [Sui Generis--a New York law blog:] Reference
And yet, my lord, if I could but be made certiorate that my natural hereditament of. From Wordnik.com. [A Legend of Montrose] Reference
It's more important for you to think your way out of a legal dilemma than to remember that incorporeal hereditament is an inchoate or intangible right. From Wordnik.com. [Perry Binder: 8 Things Your Prof Cares (or Doesn't Care) About in Class] Reference
Almelo, a Bachelor in Physic or Medicine, began to prepare a place for a monastery; for of their own free will and by his council they had determined to build an house in Vrensueghen upon an hereditament that is called Enoldint. From Wordnik.com. [The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes] Reference
Commons an incorporeal hereditament fully recognized by law. From Wordnik.com. [The Emancipation of Massachusetts] Reference
I could but be made certiorate that my natural hereditament of. From Wordnik.com. [A Legend of Montrose] Reference
He concluded that it must be an ancestral hereditament from Athens, Ohio. From Wordnik.com. [By Advice of Counsel] Reference
In this country, on the other hand, we confine the hereditament to property, abrogating it in the case of rank and power. From Wordnik.com. [Charles I Makers of History] Reference
An advowson, regarded by the law as property, is termed an incorporeal hereditament, "a right issuing out of a thing corporate.". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
His Southern hereditament of chivalry, his compassion for the oppressed and his defence of the down-trodden, were never in abeyance from the beginning of his career to the very end. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain]
That “disposition for hard hitting with a moral purpose to sanction it,” which George Meredith pronounces the national disposition of British humour, is Mark Twain's unmistakable hereditament. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain]
THIS faith of Timothy, which is but another name for the grace of life in his character, the apostle speaks of here, it will be seen, as a kind of personal hereditament, or heir-loom in the family. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Nurture.] Reference
In the misuse you have already made of legal terms you have converted an incorporeal hereditament into lands and tenements, and pray, sir, how can a planet shrouded in a cimmerian opacity shed light. From Wordnik.com. [A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.] Reference
It became a habit of the Irish Party, in its more decadent days, to spout out long litanies of its achievements and to claim credit, as a sort of hereditament no doubt, for the reforms won under the leadership of Parnell. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland Since Parnell] Reference
And yet, my lord, if I could but be made certiorate that my natural hereditament of Drumthwacket had fallen into possession of any of these loons of Covenanters, who could be, in the event of our success, conveniently made a traitor of, I have so much value for that fertile and pleasant spot, that I would e'en take on with you for the campaign. ''. From Wordnik.com. [A Legend of Montrose] Reference
But as far as I'm concerned, your brother Sam's nothin 'but a pleasant memory while as we say in the law, this saloon here is a corporeal hereditament ---- ". From Wordnik.com. [Prairie Flowers] Reference
19. hereditament. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
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