Lastly, a polity of discussion not only tends to diminish our inherited defects, but also, in one case at least, to augment a heritable excellence.
As heritable security for it, the bridegroom’s lands and houses were set forth in imposing array.
Macleod very sensibly observed, that taking away the heritablejurisdictions had not been of such service in the islands, as was imagined.
It did not pretend to bring any positive good, but only to cure some evil; and I am not well enough acquainted with the country to know what degree of evil the heritable jurisdictions occasioned.
Sir Allan whispered me, that the laird could not be persuaded, that he had lost his heritable jurisdiction.
Every private right, whether it was called property or entitledheritable possession, whether traceable to Gracchus or to Sulla, was unconditionally respected by him.
Sawley, with an air of great mystery, informed me that this was a Mr Dalgleish of Raxmathrapple, the representative of an ancient Scottish family who claimed an important heritable office.
In some cases specific forms of disorder are actuallyheritable as such.
Indeed when tested in this way it is found that a permanently heritable alteration can thus be produced only rarely and by environmental changes of the most profound character.
A considerable number of human characteristics are really known to be heritable according to this formula, enough so that several general rules of human heredity have been formulated.
But culture is not a heritable possession; no one can win it save by virtue of a higher spirit and will.
Like ancient earldoms, ancient baronies were honours in fee heritable by the heirs general.
All Baronies by writ are Baronies in fee in England, and heritable by the heir general, which means that they can if necessary devolve upon females.
One of the chief differences at the present time between an English and a Scottish peerage is to be found in those which are heritable by females.
Some of the earldoms had more extensive rights of regality than others, some were actual palatinates, and all earldoms originally were honours in fee heritable by the heir-general.
To be given a body untainted by any heritable disease, uncontaminated by any of the racial poisons.
Already the process has begun which will make it applicable to every person who has heritable rights in land.
It will be a securely heritable tenure, because the landlord is an absentee and has too few tenants in the town to require the care of a resident reeve.
The leases, if we choose to call them so, the gifts, if we choose to call them so, have created heritable rights and perdurable relationships.
Still if we look at borough after borough, tenure at a money rent is the tenure of the burgage houses that we expect to find, and such a tenure, even if in its origin it has been precarious, is likely to become heritable and secure.
But, as in general a farmer would have no heritable rights, holding in fee may be contrasted with holding in farm.
We know that taken individually the lawmen of Lincoln were holders of heritable franchises, of sake and soke.
In the middle ages he who allows land to descend twice has often enough allowed it to become heritable for good and all.
And so, again, the lord's rights under the commendation seem to constitute an alienable and heritable seignory.
True that the rights conferred upon them are not restrained within the compass of three lives but are heritable ad infinitum.
True, if parents exhibiting the same heritablevariation unite, their offspring will have that variation in a strongly marked form, and will transmit it further.
But when the conditions are constant, conjugation has also the obvious effect of constantly reabsorbing, as it were, any heritable abnormalities which may occur in individuals or the species, and bringing them back to type.
Lamarck and Darwin, besides the belief in fortuitous variation, held that heritablecharacters arise from exercise of function.
All the separate homesteads had to be reformed and reoccupied, furnished with cattle and implements, and given up to the farmer as his own heritable property.
But it seems legitimate to argue from the clear cases to the obscure cases, and to say that the germ-cells are those cells which retain the complete complement of heritable qualities.
The permutations and combinations may be due to a struggle between the elements which are the bearers of the heritable qualities, or they may be due to fluctuations in the nutritive stream which the body supplies to its germ-cells.
This office of heritable keeper remained with the Nithesdale family (chief of the Maxwells) till their forfeiture, 1715.
It was for long the only method of attaching a debtor's heritable property.
Then, too, much evidence has come to light recently showing that sex-characters in certain cases behave as heritable characters and are independent of external conditions.
It has been objected that there may be more pairs of independently heritableallelomorphic characters than there are pairs of chromosomes.
It has been found that many truly heritablecharacteristics or traits of an individual, whether plant or animal, are comparatively independent of one another and may be inherited independently.
Such traits, or as we have already termed them, unit-characters, may be not only independently heritable but independently variable as well.
The personal estate I have certainly trenched upon a little, but all to the benefit of the heritable estate.
An heritable crown, or an heritable throne, or by what other fanciful name such things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are heritable property.
Before this period, he is not trusted with the management of an acre of land, or with the heritable property of a flock of sheep, or an herd of swine; but, wonderful to tell!
Butler entreated him to remember the act abolishing the heritable jurisdictions, and that he ought to send them to Glasgow or Inverary, to be tried by the Circuit.
The extensive heritable jurisdictions of his Grace excluded the interference of other magistrates with those living on his estates, and they who were in immediate dependence on him would receive orders to give the young woman no disturbance.
During the Carolingian epoch the custom grew up of granting these as regular heritable fiefs or benefices, and by the 10th century, before the great Cluniac reform, the system was firmly established.
The act was extended to heritable property in Scotland by the Entail Amendment Act 1848, but does not apply to property in Ireland.
The term is also applied to a proceeding of the same nature by which the holder of a heritable right, labouring under any defect in point of form, gets that defect supplied by decree of a court.
It need hardly be said that the land should pay on so many years' purchase, say thirty in Great Britain, and twenty in Ireland of the clear rent, after deducting the interest of mortgages or heritable bonds or jointures.
It is particularly severe, in proportion to the value of the subjects burdened, in the mortgaging or alienating of small freeholds or heritable subjects.
Less objectionable perhaps, but still not without hazard, was the arrangement by which the new allotments bore the character of heritableleaseholds and were inalienable.
He secured the due repair of the great rural roads by assigning, on occasion of his distribution of lands, pieces of ground alongside of the roads, to which was attached the obligation of keeping them in repair as an heritable burden.
A legal deed, by which a debtor gives his heritable subjects into the hands of his creditor, that the latter may draw the rents in payment of the debt; a forensic term, S.
A liferent competent by law to widows who have not accepted of a special provision, of the third of the heritable subjects in which their husbands died infeft.
