heritable property
Wealth passed down
Heritable property is property that can be passed to heirs upon the owner's death.
In Scottish law specifically, the term distinguishes real property—land and buildings permanently attached to it—from moveable property like furniture or cash.
The distinction matters for inheritance, taxation, and transfer procedures: The estate included both heritable property and moveables.
- probateWill validation proceedings
- death dutiesTax on inherited assets
- family heirloomsInherited objects with sentimental value
- ancestral homeFamily's original dwelling place
- primogenitureEldest inherits all
real estate · title deed · succession · passing down · wealth transfer · heirship · intestacy · patrimony · landholdings · family estate · mineral rights · bequest · next of kin · legal title · dynastic wealth · landed gentry · entailment · dowry
- inheritanceinheritances, heir, heirs, heiress, bequest
- Scots Lawpursuer, defender, advocates, advocate, solicitors
- Scottish landcroft, crofting, laird, land register, land ownership