Definition of inherit

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Inherit (v. t.) To receive or take by birth; to have by nature; to derive or acquire from ancestors, as mental or physical qualities; as, he inherits a strong constitution, a tendency to disease, etc..

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Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.
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..
Disherison :: Disherison (n.) The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinhersion..
Disinheritance :: Disinheritance (n.) The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison..
Inherited :: Inherited (imp. & p. p.) of Inheri.
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..
Succeed :: Succeed (v. t.) To fall heir to; to inherit.
Disinheriting :: Disinheriting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disinheri.
Conquest :: Conquest (n.) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.
Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction..
Appendant :: Appendant (n.) A inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.
Inheritrix :: Inheritrix (n.) Same as Inheritress.
Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals..
Demise :: Demise (v. t.) To transfer or transmit by succession or inheritance; to grant or bestow by will; to bequeath.
Inheritable :: Inheritable (a.) Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir..
Disheritance :: Disheritance (n.) The act of disinheriting or state of being disinherited; disinheritance.
Cretinism :: Cretinism (n.) A condition of endemic or inherited idiocy, accompanied by physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps..
Inheritress :: Inheritress (n.) A heiress.
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..
Inheriting :: Inheriting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inheri.
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