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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1483-1564
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Hereditabil, -able, -abyll, a. [Late ME. heredytable (1494), obs. F. héréditable, legal L. hereditabilis (a 1564).] Subject to inheritance. = Heritabill a. —1483 Acts Lords Auditors *125/1.
Anent the ourgeving and hereditable assignacion of the half of the manis of Elintoune 1528 Bk. Carlaverock II. 465.
For thar hereditable infefting of our said souerane lord in the saidis landis 1564 Protocol Book of W. Cumming 27.
The forsaidis balȝeis gef hereditabyll state and possession to the said Mage … of the for-part at the kingis get
