Definition of Heritable

1. Adjective. Capable of being inherited. "An inheritable title"


Definition of Heritable

1. a. Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance; inheritable.

Definition of Heritable

1. Adjective. able to be inherited, passed from parents to their children ¹

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Definition of Heritable

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Heritable

1. Capable of being transmitted from parent to child. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heritable

hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithin
heried
heries
herile
heriot
heriotable
heriots
herisse
herisson
herissons
heritabilities
heritability
heritable
heritably
heritage
heritages
heritance
heritor
heritors
heritour
heritours
heritrices
heritrix
heritrixes
herkie
herkies
herkinorin

Literary usage of Heritable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1828)
"It is enacted by the same statute, that all dispositions or heritable bonds granted by the bankrupt, on which seisin may follow, are to be reckoned, ..."

2. The Scots Digest of Scots Appeals in the House of Lords from 1707 and of the by Robert Candlish Henderson, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1908)
"An heritable creditor hehl not liable in the expenses of a sale of lands by ... Question as to the liability of heritable creditors for the expense of a ..."

3. The Scots Digest of the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland: And by John Condie Stewart Sandeman, Scotland Courts (1905)
"Opinion (by Ld. Wellwood) that where a testator left a mixed estate of moveable and heritable property, and, inter alia, certain buildings in course of ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Walter Vere Vaughan Williams (1877)
"... his or her real or heritable estate, or out of any moneys to arise by the sale, mortgage, or other disposition of his or her real or heritable estate, ..."

5. A Handbook of Husband and Wife According to the Law of Scotland by Frederick Parker Walton (1893)
"Whatever is heritable remains excluded therefrom. No attempt can here be made to state with fulness the law of heritable and moveable. ..."

6. The Principles of the Law of Scotland in the Order of Sir G. Mackenzie's by John Erskine, Sir George Mackenzie (1827)
"A" questions, whether a right be heritable wl^t or moveable, ... If it was heritable at that period, it heritable must belong to the heir; if moveable, ..."

7. A Handbook of the Law of Scotland by James Lorimer, Russell Bell (1885)
"The character of heritable or moveable, which in some, though by no means in all respects, corresponds to real and personal property in England, ..."

8. The German Civil Code by Germany. (1907)
"Heritable BUILDING RIGHTS. 1012. A piece of land may he charged with a right (•i•) in such manner that the person in whose favour the right is created has ..."

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