HEREDITAMENTS
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
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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
Sax. A going into or with an army; a going out to war, (profcctiomilitaris;) an expedition. Spelman.
A heriot, (q. v.)
Sax. In old English law. A tribute or tax levied for the maintenance of an army. Spelman.
A place of retirement for hermits. Mon. Angl. torn. 3, p. 18.
Followers of an army.
An archdeacon. Cowell.
Heir; an heir. A form of hcrrcs, very common in the civil law. See ILERES.
In old Scotch law. Theft or robbery. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 2, pp. 20, 89.
A hired soldier who departs without license. 4 Inst. 128.
In English law. An offense against religion, consisting not in a total denialof Christianity, but of some of its essential doctrines, publicly and obstinately avowed. 4Bl. Comm. 44, 45. An opinion on
A general, leader, or commander ; also a baron of the realm. Du Fresne.
This word simply denotes time past, in distinction from time presentor time future, and has no definite and precise signification beyond this. Andrews v.Thayer, 40 Conn. 157.
In Scotch law. A gift or present made or left by a tenant to his lord as atoken of reverence. Skene.
In Saxon law. Offenders who joined in a body of more than thirty-five tocommit depredations.
In old English law. A sort of garment. Cowell.
In.English law. A customary tribute of goods and chattels, payable to thelord of the fee on the decease of the owner of the land.lleriots are divided into heriot scrviee and heriot custom.
In old English law. A species of military service, or knight’s fee.Cowell.
In old Scotch law. A fine or penalty for not obeying the proclamationmade for warfare. Skene.
A division of household goods. Blount
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