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

Patrimonially :: Patrimonially (adv.) By 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..

Coheir :: Coheir (n.) A joint heir; one of two or more heirs; one of several entitled to an inheritance.

Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance.

Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction..

Inheritability :: Inheritability (n.) The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs.

Forisfamiliate :: Forisfamiliate (v. i.) To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.

Portion :: Portion (v. t.) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

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

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..

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

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

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..

Coinheritor :: Coinheritor (n.) A coheir.

Morganatic :: Morganatic (a.) Pertaining to, in the manner of, or designating, a kind of marriage, called also left-handed marriage, between a man of superior rank and a woman of inferior, in which it is stipulated that neither the latter nor her children shall enjoy the rank or inherit the possessions of her husband..

Lineal :: Lineal (a.) Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).

Parage :: Parage (n.) Equality of condition, blood, or dignity; also, equality in the partition of an inheritance..

Disinheriting :: Disinheriting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disinheri.

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

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