Meaning & use
Hereditaments
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Items of property, whether physical or intangible, capable of being inherited.
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The will listed the estate's lands, buildings, and other hereditaments in detail.
Under old English law, hereditaments could include titles and rights as well as land.
A note on using this word
Hereditaments is a technical property-law term dividing into "corporeal" (physical, like land) and "incorporeal" (intangible, like a right of way) categories.
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