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

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

Inheritable :: Inheritable (a.) Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir..

Birth :: Birth (n.) The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.

Descent :: Descent (n.) Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity..

Disinheritance :: Disinheritance (n.) The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison..

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

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

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

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

Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.

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..

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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

Partible :: Partible (a.) Admitting of being parted; divisible; separable; susceptible of severance or partition; as, an estate of inheritance may be partible..

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

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