heritableadj.n.
/ˈhɛrᵻtəbl/, U.S. /ˈhɛrədəb(ə)l/ A. adj.
1.
a. Capable of being inherited, inheritable; in Scots Law and Civil Law, said esp. of property, or rights pertaining thereto, that pass by inheritance to heirs-at-law, as distinguished from movable property or rights, which do not so descend. heritable jurisdictions, grants of criminal jurisdiction bestowed on some of the Scottish nobility with a view to the more easy and prompt administration of justice. Abolished 1747 by Act 20 Geo. II, c. 43.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [adjective] > heritable
hereditablea1475
heritablec1480
profectitious1656
profective1795
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [adjective] > relating to inheritance > descending by inheritance > that can or may
descendablec1475
heritablec1480
inheritablea1483
descendible1614
c1480 (a1400) St. Machor 92 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 3 He gaf of heretable rycht to godis seruice al þat ton.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xiv. 14 The kyng..dyd gyue hym cccc. markis sterlyngis of rent heritable, to hold of hym in fee.
a1617 J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1827) 90 Duc Casymyr..lost the kingdom of Denmark, pretending to mak it heritable, wheras it was electywe.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. 62 Ithaca..was the heretable Kingdome of the worthy Ulysses.
1687 Royal Proclam. in London Gaz. No. 2221/4 No Law, Custom or Constitution..can..Restrain Us from conferring Heretable Rights and Priviledges upon them.
1689 Declar. Estates Scotl. 3 Imposing them where there were Heretable Offices and Jurisdictions.
1746–7 Act 20 Geo. II c. 43 §1 All Heretable Jurisdictions of Justiciary, and all Regalities and Heretable Baillieries..shall be..abrogated, taken away, and totally dissolved and extinguished.
1766 W. Gordon Gen. Counting-house 463 Inventory of the moveable and heretable estate.
1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. ii. ii. §7 Other examples of property which ought not to have been created, are properties in public trusts; such as..the heritable jurisdictions.
a1859 J. Austin Lect. Jurispr. (1879) I. xiv. 392 The rights descendible to heirs as distinguished from those descendible to executors or administrators are in the law of Scotland denoted by the appropriate term heritable.
b. Scots Law. Pertaining to or connected with heritable property. heritable bond, a bond for a sum of money, to which is joined, for the creditor's further security, a conveyance of land or of heritage, to be held by the creditor in security of the debt. heritable security, security either constituted by infeftment in favour of the creditor, or depending on the force of a condition qualifying the right of property (Bell Dict. Law Scotl.).
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the mind > possession > possessions > [adjective] > heritable > relating to heritable property
heritablec1575
c1575 Balfour's Practicks (1754) 221 The executouris may not be callit..to warrand ony heritabill infeftment or dispositioun maid be the deid befoir his deceis.
1802 Ann. Reg. 1801 (Otridge ed.) Hist. Europe 134/2 The value of what, in that part of the Island, is called heritable security.
1898 N.E.D. at Heritable Mod. (Title of Company, Edin.), Heritable Securities and Mortgage Investment Association Limited.
2. Naturally transmissible or transmitted from parent to offspring; hereditary.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [adjective]
hereditary?a1425
heredital1490
hereditariousa1527
heritable1570
hereditable1652
inherited1797
inborn1816
inheritable1828
germinal1830
germinative1833
genic1894
Mendelizing1909
1570 G. Buchanan Admon. Trew Lordis in Wks. (1892) 32 Arrogance, crueltie, dissimulatioun, and heretabill tressoun.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (li. 7) Sinne floweth by infection intoo the offspring, and is as it were heritable.
1784 J. L. De Lolme Constit. Eng. (ed. 4) i. iii. 40 Heritable forms of devotions and creeds.
1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 45 No heritable disease in the family.
3. Of persons: Capable of inheriting or taking by descent; succeeding by right of inheritance.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > [adjective] > resting on hereditary right > entitled by birth or descent > by descent
inhereditable1503
heritablec1575
hereditary1600
undisinheritablea1631
hereditable1643
c1575 Balfour's Practicks (1754) 289 The heritabill proprietar of the saidis landis.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Worc. 171 His wife..being a Double Inheritrix..indented with Husband, that her Heritable Issue, should assume her Surname.
1737 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 33) ii. i. ii. 292 The Earl of Cassilis is Heritable Bailiff of Carrick.
1886 J. Small in Encycl. Brit. XXI. 496/1 Heritable officers who had fought against the prince were only suspended, not deposed.
B. n. plural (Scots Law).
Heritable possessions; lands and other property that passes to the heir-at-law.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > heritable property
hereditament1461
inheritament1463
inheritance1473
inhereditance1483
inhereditament1491
heritage?1507
family fortune1750
heritable1801
1801 A. Ranken Hist. France I. 278 The peaceable possession of..heritables or immovables.
1888 J. Williams in Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 574/1 Except where there has been vitious intromission in movables, and in gestio pro herede and some other cases in heritables.
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