an archaic or obsolete term for inheritance or that which is inherited; heritage.
Old French 'heritance', later form of 'heritage'. This is a Middle English variant that eventually fell out of use in favor of 'heritage' and 'inheritance'.
Medieval English had multiple overlapping words for basically the same thing—'heritance,' 'heritage,' 'inheritance'—which is why modern English speakers find medieval documents so confusingly repetitive!
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