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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[LL.

hereditabilis

, fr.

hereditare

to inherit, fr. L.

hereditas

heirship inheritance,

heres

heir: cf. OF.

hereditable

. See

, and cf.

Capable of being inherited. See

Locke.

Qualified to inherit; capable of inheriting.

Adj.

[from the root of heir; L. haereditas.]

That may be inherited. [Not much used. See Inheritable.]

hereditable ‎(comparative more hereditable, superlative most hereditable)

Capable of being passed on to children.
- 1913, Penal Laws, article in Catholic Encyclopedia,
  Any Protestant who became a Catholic forfeited his whole hereditable estate to the nearest Protestant heir.