Capable of being inherited; inheritable; in Scots law, passing by inheritance to heirs at law: as, heritable rights or possessions, consisting of land and all things attached to or connected with it, and sometimes of other things made descendible by succession, in distinction from movable rights or property, consisting of things not so attached or descendible.
Capable of inheriting or taking by descent.
noun.
In Scots law, a possession or right which may be inherited, or which may descend by succession.