Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of inheritance is as below...

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

Transmission :: Transmission (n.) The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor or successors any inheritance, legacy, right, or privilege, to which he is entitled, even if he should die without enjoying or exercising it..

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..

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..

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

Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities..

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..

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..

Forisfamiliate :: Forisfamiliate (v. i.) To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.

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

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

Successively :: Successive (a.) Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire..

Partible :: Partible (a.) Admitting of being parted; divisible; separable; susceptible of severance or partition; as, an estate of inheritance may be partible..

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

Secundo-geniture :: Secundo-geniture (n.) A right of inheritance belonging to a second son; a property or possession so inherited.

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

Perigenesis :: Perigenesis (n.) A theory which explains inheritance by the transmission of the type of growth force possessed by one generation to another.

Disinheritance :: Disinheritance (n.) The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison..

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

Frank-marriage :: Frank-marriage (n.) A certain tenure in tail special; an estate of inheritance given to a man his wife (the wife being of the blood of the donor), and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten..

Random Fonts

Most Popular