Definition of "hereditaments" [hereditaments]

• Plural form of hereditament. (noun)

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• "The age of discretion for passing away of lands or such kind of hereditaments, or for giving, of votes, verdicts or Sentence in any Civil Courts or causes, shall be one and twenty years."
• "The illegally legal instrument is still in existence, with its unpunctuated jargon about "hereditaments" and "fee simple," its "and whereas the said Daniel Levy" in every other line, and its eventual plain provision for "the said sum of £15,000 to remain charged upon the security of the hereditaments in the said recited"
• "They ... they are appurtenances, and — ­and hereditaments, and such things."