PROPERTY,LAWsomething which can beinherited(=leftto someone by apersonwho hasdied)but does notphysicallyexist:Therightto useairspaceoverpropertyis anincorporealhereditament.(Definition ofincorporeal hereditamentfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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incorporeal hereditamentA franchise, such as a corporation, a jurisdiction, or a right to collect certain tolls or taxes, was, in effect, a kind of property: anincorporealhereditament.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A dignity is anincorporealhereditament, and descends in the same way.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0This "incorporealhereditament" has nothing to do with the words which it is proposed to insert in their place.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I was sent to an election court, where two judges declared that a peerage was "anincorporealhereditamentaffixed in the blood and annexed to the posterity".From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I suppose that incorporeal heritable rights and incorporeal hereditaments mean exactly the same thing.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Other assets, what we used to call incorporeal hereditaments back in law school--fair workin' knowledge of the cattle an' horse business.FromProject GutenbergSporting rights are in any case unusual in being incorporeal hereditaments; in other words, there is nothing physical to be rated.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/incorporeal-hereditament##
