NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS
\nɐθˈanjə͡l pˈɑːkə wˈɪlis], \nɐθˈanjəl pˈɑːkə wˈɪlis], \n_ɐ_θ_ˈa_n_j_əl p_ˈɑː_k_ə w_ˈɪ_l_i_s]\
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An American poet and journalist; born at Portland, Me., Jan. 20, 1806; died at Idlewild on the Hudson, N. Y., Jan. 20, 1867. His chief journalistic work was with the New York Mirror (1823-42). Among his numerous writings are: "Inklings of Adventure" (3 vols., 1836); "Loiterings of Travel" (3 vols., 1840); "Letters from Under a Bridge" (1840); "Poems" (1846); "People I Have Met" (1850); "Hurrygraphs" (1851); "A Health Trip to the Tropics" (1854); "Famous Persons and Places" (1854); and "The Convalescent, his Rambles and Adventures" (1859).
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.