Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Subject to the payment of a heriot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Subject to the payment of a heriot.
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- adjective Subject to the
payment of aheriot .
Etymologies
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heriot + -able
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Examples
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When the time for holding the next court arrived, others came round the poor woman, and made it quite evident that the lands she had succeeded to were not heriotable at all, and that Henry Anneys was a swindler.
The Coming of the Friars Augustus Jessopp 1868
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Richard disputed the right, and protested that his land was not _heriotable.
The Coming of the Friars Augustus Jessopp 1868
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