incorporeal hereditament
noun[C]
ukusPROPERTY,LAW
something which can beinherited(=leftto someone by apersonwho hasdied)but does notphysicallyexist:
Therightto useairspaceoverpropertyis anincorporealhereditament.
Examplesofincorporeal hereditament
incorporeal hereditament
A franchise, such as a corporation, a jurisdiction, or a right to collect certain tolls or taxes, was, in effect, a kind of property: anincorporealhereditament.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A dignity is anincorporealhereditament, and descends in the same way.
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This "incorporealhereditament" has nothing to do with the words which it is proposed to insert in their place.
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I was sent to an election court, where two judges declared that a peerage was "anincorporealhereditamentaffixed in the blood and annexed to the posterity".
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I suppose that incorporeal heritable rights and incorporeal hereditaments mean exactly the same thing.
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Other assets, what we used to call incorporeal hereditaments back in law school--fair workin' knowledge of the cattle an' horse business.
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Sporting rights are in any case unusual in being incorporeal hereditaments; in other words, there is nothing physical to be rated.
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