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Hereditably :: Hereditably (adv.) By inheritance.

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..

Heir :: Heir (v. t.) To inherit; to succeed to.

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

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

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..

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

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

Inheritable :: Inheritable (a.) Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title..

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..

Patrimonially :: Patrimonially (adv.) By inheritance.

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

Inherit :: 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..

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

Heritable :: Heritable (a.) Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance; inheritable.

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..

Coinheritance :: Coinheritance (n.) Joint inheritance.

Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law..

Coinheritor :: Coinheritor (n.) A coheir.

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

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