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

Frank-marriage :: Frank-marriage (n.) A certain tenure in tail special; an estate of inheritance given to a man his wife (the wife being of the blood of the donor), and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten..

Abuse :: Abuse (v. t.) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority..

Coheiress :: Coheiress (n.) A female heir who inherits with other heiresses; a joint heiress.

Perigenesis :: Perigenesis (n.) A theory which explains inheritance by the transmission of the type of growth force possessed by one generation to another.

Disherit :: Disherit (v. t.) To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance..

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

Conquest :: Conquest (n.) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.

Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance.

Hereditament :: Hereditament (n.) Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir..

Exheredate :: Exheredate (v. t.) To disinherit.

Portion :: Portion (v. t.) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law..

Parcenary :: Parcenary (n.) The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.

Inheritrix :: Inheritrix (n.) Same as Inheritress.

Disinherited :: Disinherited (imp. & p. p.) of Disinheri.

Patrimony :: Patrimony (n.) A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor..

Lineal :: Lineal (a.) Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).

Heir :: Heir (n.) One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter..

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..