Heritable and Movable

Heritable and Movable, a Scotch law-phrase denoting the distinction of things which go to the heir and to the executors respectively. Movables include such property as passes to the executor in succession, or is removable by the tenant on leaving his farm, or as comes under the operation of the law of the owner's domicile in bankruptcy and succession. Money and household furniture may be taken as examples. Heritable subjects are such as go to the heir in succession, or go with land to a buyer, and are regulated by the territorial law. The best examples are land and houses. The gearing of engines and all machinery fixed to the floor are also heritable. The distinction corresponds to a certain extent to the phrase 'Heir and Executor' in England.