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Definition of inherit

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Inherit (v. t.) To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits the crown..

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Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities..

Primogeniture :: Primogeniture (a.) The exclusive right of inheritance which belongs to the eldest son. Thus in England the right of inheriting the estate of the father belongs to the eldest son, and in the royal family the eldest son of the sovereign is entitled to the throne by primogeniture. In exceptional cases, among the female children, the crown descends by right of primogeniture to the eldest daughter only and her issue..

Delapse :: Delapse (v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.

Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a possession which passes by descent.

Entrance :: Entrance (n.) The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office..

Cleronomy :: Cleronomy (n.) Inheritance; heritage.

Succeed :: Succeed (v. t.) To fall heir to; to inherit.

Heritable :: Heritable (a.) Capable of inheriting or receiving by inheritance.

Inheritable :: Inheritable (a.) Capable of being transmitted from parent to child; as, inheritable qualities or infirmities..

Transmit :: Transmit (v. t.) To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, to transmit a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money, or bills of exchange, from one country to another..

Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction..

Hereditary :: Hereditary (a.) Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown..

Disinherit :: Disinherit (v. t.) To deprive of heritage; to dispossess.

Appendant :: Appendant (n.) A inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.

Forisfamiliate :: Forisfamiliate (v. i.) To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.

Nobility :: Nobility (n.) The state of being of high rank or noble birth; patrician dignity; antiquity of family; distinction by rank, station, or title, whether inherited or conferred..

Heirdom :: Heirdom (n.) The state of an heir; succession by inheritance.

Disheritor :: Disheritor (n.) One who puts another out of his inheritance.

Freeborn :: Freeborn (a.) Born free; not born in vassalage; inheriting freedom.

Fee :: Fee (n.) An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure..