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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..

Inherited :: Inherited (imp. & p. p.) of Inheri.

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..

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..

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

Inherit :: Inherit (v. t.) To put in possession of.

Exheredate :: Exheredate (v. t.) To disinherit.

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..

Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement..

Coparcener :: Coparcener (n.) One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance.

Coinheritor :: Coinheritor (n.) A coheir.

Abdicate :: Abdicate (v. t.) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit..

Able :: Able (superl.) Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property..

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..

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

Disheritor :: Disheritor (n.) One who puts another out of his inheritance.

Succeed :: Succeed (v. t.) To fall heir to; to inherit.

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..

Disinherited :: Disinherited (imp. & p. p.) of Disinheri.

Appendant :: Appendant (n.) A inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.

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