HERETAGE, in Scots law, lands, houses, or any immovable subject, in contradistinction to moveables or moveable subjects. It also sometimes signifies such immovable property as a person succeeds to as heir to another, in contradistinction to that which he himself purchases or acquires in any other manner, called conquest.
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