heritable
adjective/ˈherɪtəbl/
/ˈherɪtəbl/
(law)- (of property) that can be passed from one member of a family to anotherWord Originlate Middle English: from Old French heriter ‘inherit’, from ecclesiastical Latin hereditare, from Latin heres, hered- ‘heir’.
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