HEREDIA Y CAMPUZANO

heredia y campuzano, jose maria (1803-1839), cuban poet, was born at santiago de cuba on the 31st of december 1803, studied at the university of havana, and was called to the bar in 1823. in the autumn of 1823 he was arrested on a charge of conspiracy against the spanish government, and was sentenced to banishment for life. he took refuge in the united states, published a volume of verses at new york in 1825, and then went to mexico, where, becoming naturalized, he obtained a post as magistrate. in 1832 a collection of his poems was issued at toluca, and in 1836 he obtained permission to visit cuba for two months. disappointed in his political ambitions, and broken in health, heredia returned to mexico in january 1837, and died at toluca on the 21st of may 1839. many of his earlier pieces are merely clever translations from french, english and italian; but his originality is placed beyond doubt by such poems as the _himno del desterrado_, the epistle to emilia, _desenganos_, and the celebrated ode to niagara. bello may be thought to excel heredia in execution, and a few lines of olmedo's _canto a junin_ vibrate with a virile passion to which the cuban poet rarely attained; but the sincerity of his patriotism and the sublimity of his imagination have secured for heredia a real supremacy among spanish-american poets. the best edition of his works is that published at paris in 1893 with a preface by elias zerolo. hereditament (from lat. _hereditare_, to inherit, _heres_, heir), in law, every kind of property that can be _inherited_. hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal; corporeal hereditaments are "such as affect the senses, and may be seen and handled by the body; incorporeal are not the subject of sensation, can neither be seen nor handled, are creatures of the mind, and exist only in contemplation" (blackstone, _commentaries_). an example of a corporeal hereditament is land held in freehold, of incorporeal hereditaments, tithes, advowsons, pensions, annuities, rents, franchises, &c. it is still used in the phrase "lands, tenements and hereditaments" to describe property in land, as distinguished from goods and chattels or movable property.