heriotableadj.
/ˈhɛrɪətəb(ə)l/ Subject or liable to the payment of heriots.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > payment or service to feudal superior > [adjective] > liable or subject to pay specific dues
heriotable1598
wardablec1620
1598 tr. J. Kitchin Jurisdictions (1675) 269 The Husband and Wife and their Son purchase Lands joyntly Harriotable.
1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue 102 It behoveth the Lord to know, who be the tenants..belonging to an heriotable tenement, because every part continueth heriotable.
1777 J. Nicolson & R. Burn Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland I. 174 The tenants are chiefly customary and heriotable.
1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars v. 225 Richard..protested that his land was not heriotable.
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