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Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) Possession; ownership; acquisition.

Delapse :: Delapse (v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.

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..

Acquest :: Acquest (n.) Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance..

Esnecy :: Esnecy (n.) A prerogative given to the eldest coparcener to choose first after an inheritance is divided.

Birthdom :: Birthdom (n.) The land of one's birth; one's inheritance.

Appendant :: Appendant (v. t.) Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; -- said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house..

Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a possession which passes by descent.

Breed :: Breed (n.) A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance..

Heritage :: Heritage (a.) That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance..

Heritance :: Heritance (n.) Heritage; inheritance.

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

Patrimonially :: Patrimonially (adv.) By inheritance.

Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.

Heritable :: Heritable (a.) Capable of inheriting or receiving by inheritance.

Fee :: Fee (n.) An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner..

Inheritably :: Inheritably (adv.) By inheritance.

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

Inherit :: Inherit (v. t.) To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits the crown..

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

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