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Hereditable :: Hereditable (a.) Qualified to inherit; capable of inheriting.

Portion :: Portion (n.) The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate; an inheritance..

Coinheritor :: Coinheritor (n.) A coheir.

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

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..

Disinherit :: Disinherit (v. t.) To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent..

Inheritable :: Inheritable (a.) Capable of being transmitted from parent to child; as, inheritable qualities or infirmities..

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

Heirship :: Heirship (n.) The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting..

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..

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

Disherison :: Disherison (n.) The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinhersion..

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

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..

Quartter :: Quartter (v. t.) To arrange (different coats of arms) upon one escutcheon, as when a man inherits from both father and mother the right to bear arms..

Coparceny :: Coparceny (n.) An equal share of an inheritance.

Cleronomy :: Cleronomy (n.) Inheritance; heritage.

Inheritably :: Inheritably (adv.) By inheritance.

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