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N incorporeal hereditament is a right iuing out of a thing corporate (whether real or peronal) or concerning, or annexed to, or exerciible within, the ame. It is not the thing corporate itelf, which may conit in lands, houes, jewels, or the like; but omething collateral thereto, as a rent iuing out of thoe lands or houes, or an office relating to thoe jewels. In hort, as the logicians peak, corporeal hereditaments are the ubtance, which may be always een, always handled: incorporeal hereditaments are but a ort of accidents, which inhere in and are upported by that ubtance; and may belong, or not belong to it, without any viible alteration therein. Their exitence is merely in idea and abtracted contemplation; though their effects and profits may be frequently objects of our bodily enes. And indeed, if we would fix a clear notion of an incorporeal hereditament, we mut be careful not to confound together the profits produced, and the thing, or hereditament, which produces them. An annuity, for intance, is an incorporeal hereditament: for though the money, which is the fruit or product of this annuity, is doubtles of a corporeal nature, yet the annuity itelf, which produces that money, is a thing inviible, has only a mental exitence, and cannot be delivered over from hand to hand. So tithes, Rh