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

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..

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

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

Able :: Able (superl.) Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property..

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

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

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..

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

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

Freehold :: Freehold (n.) An estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held..

Coparcener :: Coparcener (n.) One who has an equal portion with others of an 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..

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

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

Birthdom :: Birthdom (n.) The land of one's birth; one's inheritance.

Coinheritance :: Coinheritance (n.) Joint inheritance.

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..

Inherited :: Inherited (imp. & p. p.) of Inheri.