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Webster 1913 Edition
Heritable
1.
Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance; inheritable.
2.
Capable of inheriting or receiving by inheritance.
This son shall be legitimate and
heritable
. Sir M. Hale.
Heritable rights
(Scots Law)
, rights of the heir; rights to land or whatever may be intimately connected with land; realty.
Jacob (Law Dict.).
Webster 1828 Edition
Heritable
HER'ITABLE
,Adj.
1.
Capable of inheriting, or taking by descent. By the canon law this son shall be legitimate and heritable.
2.
That may be inherited. [This is the true sense.]3.
Annexed to estates of inheritance. In Scot's law, heritable rights are all rights that affect lands or other immovables.Definition 2024
heritable
heritable
See also: héritable
English
Adjective
heritable (not comparable)
- able to be inherited, passed from parents to their children
- 1791: Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man
- All hereditary government is in its nature tyranny. An heritable crown, or an heritable throne, or by what other fanciful name such things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are heritable property.
- 1909: Albert Charles Seward, Darwin and Modern Science
- But if we consider that all heritable variations must have their roots in the germ-plasm, and further, that when personal selection does not intervene, ...
- 1791: Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man
Synonyms
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Translations
able to be inherited
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