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

Disheritance :: Disheritance (n.) The act of disinheriting or state of being disinherited; disinheritance.

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..

Patrimonially :: Patrimonially (adv.) By inheritance.

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..

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

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

Heirloom :: Heirloom (n.) Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations..

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.

Inheritably :: Inheritably (adv.) By inheritance.

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

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

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..

Heirdom :: Heirdom (n.) The state of an heir; succession by inheritance.

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

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

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

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

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

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