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HERITABLE

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Capable of being taken by descent A , term chiefly used in Scotch law, where it enters into several phrases. Heritable bond. A bond for a sum of money to which is added, for further security of the creditor, a conveyance of land or heritage to be held by the creditor as pledge. 1 Ross, Conv. 76; 2 Ross, Conv. 324. Heritable Jurisdictions. Grants of criminal jurisdiction … [Read more...]

HERESY

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In English law. An offense against religion, consisting not in a total denial of Christianity, but of some of its essential doctrines, publicly and obstinately avowed. 4 Bl. Comm. 44, 45. An opinion on divine subjects devised by human reason, openly taught and obstinately maintained. 1 Hale, P. C. 384. This offense is now subject only to ecclesiastical correction, and is no … [Read more...]

HERITABLE OBLIGATION

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A legal requirement, obligation or right which is not extinguished as a result of the death of the person who had prior owned such rights (or who had owed such an obligation) and which rights/obligations are transferred to the deceased person's estate. … [Read more...]

HENCEFORTH

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A word of futurity which as employed in legal documents statutes and the like always imports a continuity of action or condition from the present time forward but excludes all the past. … [Read more...]

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