Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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HERITABLY, adv. By right of inheritance.
Phr. heritably secured, applied to property mortgaged as heritable security. See Heritable.Sc. a.1714 Earls Crm. (Fraser 1876) II. 465:
The constabulary of the fort hath bein conferred heritably on his father.Sc. 1757 Erskine Principles ii. ii. § 10:
Where lands are voluntarily sold . . . the price, if it be not heritably secured, must, as a moveable subject, go to the seller's executors.Sc. 1896 Session Cases (1948) 95:
We as trustees foresaid dispone to the said company and their assignees heritably and irredeemably All and Whole the subject Number Forty-seven Belmont Street, Aberdeen.
