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.
Inofficious :: Inofficious (a.) Regardless of natural obligation; contrary to natural duty; unkind; -- commonly said of a testament made without regard to natural obligation, or by which a child is unjustly deprived of inheritance..
Inheritable :: Inheritable (a.) Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title..
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..
Coinheritor :: Coinheritor (n.) A coheir.
Exhereditation :: Exhereditation (n.) A disinheriting; disherison.
Birth :: Birth (n.) The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.
Successively :: Successive (a.) Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire..
Hereditable :: Hereditable (a.) Capable of being inherited. See Inheritable.
Inherit :: Inherit (v. t.) To put in possession of.
Inheriting :: Inheriting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inheri.
Heritable :: Heritable (a.) Capable of inheriting or receiving by inheritance.
Delapse :: Delapse (v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.
Inherit :: Inherit (v. t.) To come into possession of; to possess; to own; to enjoy as a possession.
Esnecy :: Esnecy (n.) A prerogative given to the eldest coparcener to choose first after an inheritance is divided.
Transmit :: Transmit (v. t.) To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, to transmit a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money, or bills of exchange, from one country to another..
Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) Possession; ownership; acquisition.
Succeed :: Succeed (v. t.) To fall heir to; to inherit.
Nobility :: Nobility (n.) The state of being of high rank or noble birth; patrician dignity; antiquity of family; distinction by rank, station, or title, whether inherited or conferred..
Partible :: Partible (a.) Admitting of being parted; divisible; separable; susceptible of severance or partition; as, an estate of inheritance may be partible..
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