Inheritance

(-here-tanz.) [From. L. hæreditas, heirship.] (Law.) A perpetual right or interest in an estate, vested in a person and his heirs. The inheritances mentioned in law are either corporeal or incorporeal: the corporeal relate to lands, tenements, ., that may be touched or handled; and the incorporeal, to such rights as are annexed to corporeal inheritances, as annuities, offices, . [s. 484]