01 a. Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title.
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Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title.
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Capable of being transmitted from parent to child; as, inheritable qualities or infirmities.
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Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir.“By attainder . . . the blood of the person attainted is so corrupted as to be rendered no longer inheritable.” — Blackstone.“The eldest daughter of the king is also alone inheritable to the crown on failure of issue male.” — Blackstone.
Phrases & compounds
Inheritable blood —
blood or relationship by which a person becomes qualified to be an heir, or to transmit possessions by inheritance.