The word "inheritable" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used in legal or scientific contexts to describe traits or properties that can be passed down from one generation to another.
Example: "The inheritable traits of the family were studied by the geneticist."
Alternatives: "Genetic" or "Hereditary."
Its report stresses that some of the new accounts could be turned into inheritable wealth with the proviso that pensioners must ensure they leave themselves with sufficient income to ward off destitution in old age.
More strikingly, there is some evidence that the quality is inheritable: after surveying a large sample of twins, the authors of one study concluded that between 35% and 50% of the qualities associated with leadership were due to genetic factors.
Until 1964 (in immovables) the widower was entitled to curtesy, a life rent in his wife's heritage (i.e., immovable) property, and the widow had the right of terce i.e., a life rent out of one-third of her husband's inheritable estate.
The form of the bivariate normal distribution as well as expressions for the coefficients â and b̂ and for the minimum mean square error of prediction were discovered by the English eugenicist Sir Francis Galton in his studies of the transmission of inheritable characteristics from one generation to the next.
Present knowledge of the mechanisms of inheritance are such that modern scientists can distinguish more satisfactorily than Darwin between non-inheritable bodily variation and variation of a genuinely inheritable kind.
Exploiting the situation, the king's councillors drafted a new law that eliminated the special political privileges of the nobility and proclaimed the crown fully inheritable, thus giving the king de facto absolute power.
Over time, differences among members of the elite increased, and by the end of the period the concept of royalty had emerged, the status of the elite was becoming inheritable, and the gap between the elite and the free peasantry had widened.
One of the more common forms of cerebral sphingolipidosis (or cerebral lipidosis), formerly called amaurotic familial idiocy, is Tay-Sachs disease, a rare, inheritable disorder caused by the accumulation of sphingolipids in the brain.
Another inheritable lipidosis is Niemann-Pick disease, in which lecithin and sphingomyelin accumulate in various body tissues, such as the spleen and the liver.
