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Rightful :: Rightful (a.) Belonging, held, or possessed by right, or by just claim; as, a rightful inheritance; rightful authority..

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

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

Exhereditation :: Exhereditation (n.) A disinheriting; disherison.

Descent :: Descent (n.) Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity..

Conquest :: Conquest (n.) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.

Patrimonially :: Patrimonially (adv.) By inheritance.

Inheritably :: Inheritably (adv.) By inheritance.

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..

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

Coinheritance :: Coinheritance (n.) Joint inheritance.

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

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..

Demise :: Demise (v. t.) To transfer or transmit by succession or inheritance; to grant or bestow by will; to bequeath.

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..

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

Primogeniture :: Primogeniture (a.) The exclusive right of inheritance which belongs to the eldest son. Thus in England the right of inheriting the estate of the father belongs to the eldest son, and in the royal family the eldest son of the sovereign is entitled to the throne by primogeniture. In exceptional cases, among the female children, the crown descends by right of primogeniture to the eldest daughter only and her issue..

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

Inheritable :: Inheritable (a.) Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title..

Heritable :: Heritable (a.) Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance; inheritable.

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