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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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Heritage :: Heritage (a.) That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance..

Fee :: Fee (n.) An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner..

Hereditarily :: Hereditarily (adv.) By inheritance; in an hereditary manner.

Parage :: Parage (n.) Equality of condition, blood, or dignity; also, equality in the partition of an inheritance..

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

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

Exhereditation :: Exhereditation (n.) A disinheriting; disherison.

Inherit :: Inherit (v. i.) To take or hold a possession, property, estate, or rights by inheritance..

Quartter :: Quartter (v. t.) To arrange (different coats of arms) upon one escutcheon, as when a man inherits from both father and mother the right to bear arms..

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

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

Heritance :: Heritance (n.) Heritage; inheritance.

Inheritress :: Inheritress (n.) A heiress.

Patrimonial :: Patrimonial (a.) Of or pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors; as, a patrimonial estate..

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..

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

Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir..

Curtesy :: Curtesy (n.) the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands..

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..

Inherit :: Inherit (v. t.) To come into possession of; to possess; to own; to enjoy as a possession.