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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..

Coparcenary :: Coparcenary (n.) Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession to an inheritance.

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

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..

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..

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

Portion :: Portion (v. t.) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

Inherit :: Inherit (v. i.) To take or hold a possession, property, estate, or rights by inheritance..

Hereditably :: Hereditably (adv.) By inheritance.

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

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..

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

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

Hereditarily :: Hereditarily (adv.) By inheritance; in an hereditary manner.

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

Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir..

Parage :: Parage (n.) Equality of condition, blood, or dignity; also, equality in the partition of an inheritance..

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

Coinheritance :: Coinheritance (n.) Joint inheritance.

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

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