Examples of incorporeal hereditaments are hereditary titles of honour or dignity, heritable titles of office, coats of arms, prescriptive baronies, pensions, annuities, rentcharges, franchises — and any other interest having no physical existence.
[3] Two categories related to the church have been abolished in England and Wales and certain other parts of the British Isles: tithes and advowsons.
The term featured in the one-time "sweeper definition", catch-all phrase, "lands, tenements and hereditaments"[1] is deprecated in contemporary legal documents.
[1] In the UK, the word is used in annual property taxation; its practical definition being the answer to the question, "as a matter of fact and degree, is or will the building, as a building, be ready for occupation, or capable of occupation, for the purposes for which it is intended?"
combined with tests surrounding whether it is a dwelling and case law decisions, for example whether: