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HEREDITAMENTS Definition & Legal Meaning

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Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, or mixed, and including not only lands and everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, and certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 N. E.730; Owens v. Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, 15 Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock v. Greacen. 4S N. J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell v. Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York v. Mabie, 13 N. Y. 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S.

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