Hereditament - Law Dictionary Search Results
Annuity
savings banks. Before 1926 an annuity not created by marriage settlement or will did not affect lands or hereditaments as against purchasers, mortgagees or creditors without notice unless it was registered, 18 & 19 Vict. c. 15,
Action
damages from the defendant; real actions, in which he sought to establish his title to land or other hereditaments; mixed actions, in which he sought only to establish his right to possession of land. All forms of
Abeyance, or Abbayance
in expectation, remembrance, and contemplation of law. The word abeyance has been compared to what the civilians call hereditas jacens; for, as the civilians say land and goods jacent, so the common lawyers say that things in
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inherit
inherit [Middle French enheriter to make one an heir, from Late Latin inhereditare, from Latin in- in + hereditas inheritance] vt 1 : to receive (property) from an estate by operation of the laws of intestacy ;broadly
incorporeal
incorporeal : not tangible : having no material body or form [ hereditaments] [an right] compare corporeal
hereditary
hereditary [Latin hereditarius, from hereditas inheritance, from hered- heres heir] 1 : received or passing by inheritance or required
Use and occupation, Action for
landlord, where the agreement is not by deed, to recover a reasonable satisfaction for the lands, tenements, or hereditaments held or occupied by the defendant in an action on the case, for the use or occupation of
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