Things capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, and including not only lands and everything thereon, but also heirlooms, and certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir together with the land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nellis v. Munson, 108 X. Y. 453. 15 N. E. 739; Owens v. Lewis, 46 Ind. 508, 15 Am. Rep. 295; Whitlock v. Greacen, 48 N. J. Eq. 359, 21 Ati. 944; Mitchell v. Warner, 5 Conn. 497; New York v. Mabie, 13 N. Y. 159, 64 Am. Dec. 538.
The term includes a few rights unconnected with land, but it is generally used as the widest expression for real property of all kinds, and is therefore employed in conveyances after the words “lands” and “tenements, to include everything of the nature of realty which they do not cover. Swee. Corporeal hereditaments. Substantial permanent objects which may be inherited. The term “land” will include all such. 2 Bl. Comm. 17: Whitlock v. Greacen, 48 N. J. Eq. 359, 21 Atl. 944; Cary v. Daniels, 5 Mete. (Mass.) 236 ; Gibbs v. Drew, 16 Fla. 147, 26 Am. Rep. 700. Incorporeal hereditaments. Anything, the subject of property, which is inheritable and not tangible or visible. 2 Woodd. Lect 4. A right issuing out of a thing corporate (whether real or personal) or concerning or annexed to or exercisable within the same. 2 Bl. Comm. 20; 1 Washb. Real Prop. 10; Hegan v. Pendennis Club (Ky.) 64 S. W. 465; Whitlock v. Greacen, 48 N. J. Eq. 359, 21 Atl. 944; Stone v. Stone, 1 R. I. 428.