Definition of inherit

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Inherit (v. t.) To come into possession of; to possess; to own; to enjoy as a possession.

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Forisfamiliate :: Forisfamiliate (v. i.) To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.
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..
Disinheriting :: Disinheriting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disinheri.
Disherison :: Disherison (n.) The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinhersion..
Heritable :: Heritable (a.) Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance; inheritable.
Inheritor :: Inheritor (n.) One who inherits; an heir.
Heritage :: Heritage (a.) That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; 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..
Appendant :: Appendant (n.) A inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.
Birthright :: Birthright (n.) Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born..
Disinheritance :: Disinheritance (n.) The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison..
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..
Parage :: Parage (n.) Equality of condition, blood, or dignity; also, equality in the partition of an inheritance..
Heritance :: Heritance (n.) Heritage; inheritance.
Heirship :: Heirship (n.) The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting..
Perigenesis :: Perigenesis (n.) A theory which explains inheritance by the transmission of the type of growth force possessed by one generation to another.
Heir :: Heir (n.) One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter..
Lineal :: Lineal (a.) Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).
Delapse :: Delapse (v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.
Coinheritor :: Coinheritor (n.) A coheir.
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