ARMINIUS VAMBERY
\ɑːmˈɪnɪəs vˈambəɹi], \ɑːmˈɪnɪəs vˈambəɹi], \ɑː_m_ˈɪ_n_ɪ__ə_s v_ˈa_m_b_ə_ɹ_i]\
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A noted Hungarian traveler, Orientalist, and historian, now professor at BudaPesth; born at Szerdahely, March 19, 1832. He lived many years in Constantinople, and traveled largely in Asia. Among his works are: "Travels in Central Asia" (1865); "Wanderings and Adventures in Persia" (1867); "Sketches of Central Asia" (1868); "History of Bokhara" (1873); "Central Asia and the Russian Boundary Question"; "Islam in the Nineteenth Century" (1875); "Manners in Oriental Countries" (1876); "Primitive Civilization of the Turko-Tartar People" (1879); "Origin of the Magyars" (1882); "The Future Contest for India" (1886); and various linguistic works, including a "German-Turkish Dictionary", and "Etymological Dictionary of the Turko-Tartar Languages" (1878).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.