heritable obligation
- An obligation that can be imposed by the person who comes after the obligee, or an obligation for which the person can be held responsible who comes after the obligor
- Upon his death, the father's heritable obligation of a debt went to his son.
- Because of the heritable obligation, the new owner of the property had to adhere to the restrictions that the previous owner was subject to.
- The land was sold with a heritable obligation of maintaining the public footpath that ran through it.
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