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Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir.

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  1. n. Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir.
  2. n. any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited
  3. Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir. Blackstone. Note: A corporeal hereditament is visible and tangible; an incorporeal hereditament is not in itself visible or tangible, being an hereditary right, interest, or obligation, as duty to pay rent, or a right of way.
  4. Any species of property that may be inherited; lands,tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, ormixed, that may descend to an heir. Blackstone.
  5. n. any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited