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 Ch. 2. houes and other buildings, yet in it's original, proper, and legal ene it ignifies every thing that may be holden, provided it be of a permanent nature; whether it be of a ubtantial and enible, or of an unubtantial ideal kind. Thus liberum tenementum, franktenement, or freehold, is applicable not only to lands and other olid objects, but alo to offices, rents, commons, and the like : and as lands and houes are tenements, o is an advowon a tenement; and a franchie, an office, a right of common, a peerage, or other property of the like unubtantial kind, are, all of them, legally peaking, tenements. But an hereditament, ays ir Edward Coke, is by much the larget and mot comprehenive expreion; for it includes not only lands and tenements, but whatoever may be inherited, be it corporeal, or incorporeal, real, peronal, or mixed. Thus an heir loom, or implement of furniture which by cutom decends to the heir together with an houe, is neither land, nor tenement, but a mere moveable; yet, being inheritable, is comprized under the general word, hereditament: and o a condition, the benefit of which may decend to a man from his ancetor, is alo an hereditament.

then, to ue the larget expreion, are, of two kinds, corporeal, and incorporeal. Corporeal conit of uch as affect the enes; uch as may be een and handled by the body: incorporeal are not the object of enation, can neither be een nor handled, are creatures of the mind, and exit only in contemplation.

hereditaments conit wholly of ubtantial and permanent objects; all which may be comprehended under the general denomination of land only. For land, ays ir Edward Coke, comprehendeth in it's legal ignification any ground, oil, or earth whatoever; as arable, meadows, patures, woods, moors, waters, marihes, furzes, and heath. It legally includeth Rh