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heritage noun ancestry, bequest, birthright, descent, expectations, future possession, hereditament, hereditas, heredium, heritance, incorporeal hereditament, inheritance, inherited lot, inherited portion, legacy, lineage, patrimony, portion, reversion
Associated concepts: descendants
See also: affinity, ancestry, bequest, birth, birthright, blood, claim, descent, estate, hereditament, inheritance, lineage, origin, right

HERITAGE. By this word is understood, among the civilians, every species of immovable which can be the subject of property, such as lands, houses, orchards, woods, marshes, ponds, &c., in whatever mode they may have been acquired, either by descent or purchase. 3 Toull. 472. It is something that can be inherited. Co. Litt. s. 731.



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