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

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..

Breed :: Breed (n.) A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance..

Disinheriting :: Disinheriting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disinheri.

Disherison :: Disherison (n.) The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinhersion..

Hereditably :: Hereditably (adv.) By inheritance.

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

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

Patrimonially :: Patrimonially (adv.) By inheritance.

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

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.

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

Inherit :: Inherit (v. t.) To put in possession of.

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

Exheredation :: Exheredation (n.) A disinheriting; disherisor.

Heirloom :: Heirloom (n.) Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations..

Inheritor :: Inheritor (n.) One who inherits; an heir.

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..

Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement..

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