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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Exheredation :: Exheredation (n.) A disinheriting; disherisor.
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.
Patrimonial :: Patrimonial (a.) Of or pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors; as, a patrimonial estate..
Disherison :: Disherison (n.) The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinhersion..
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..
Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a possession which passes by descent.
Birthdom :: Birthdom (n.) The land of one's birth; one's inheritance.
Forisfamiliate :: Forisfamiliate (v. i.) To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.
Inheriting :: Inheriting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inheri.
Inheritability :: Inheritability (n.) The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs.
Parcener :: Parcener (n.) A coheir, or one of two or more persons to whom an estate of inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it is held as one estate..
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..
Purchaser :: Purchaser (n.) One who acquires an estate in lands by his own act or agreement, or who takes or obtains an estate by any means other than by descent or inheritance..
Hereditary :: Hereditary (a.) Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown..
Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities..
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 (v. t.) To inherit; to succeed to.
Patrimonially :: Patrimonially (adv.) By inheritance.
Hereditably :: Hereditably (adv.) By inheritance.
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