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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..

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

Coinheritance :: Coinheritance (n.) Joint inheritance.

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..

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

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..

Inheritably :: Inheritably (adv.) By inheritance.

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

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

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

Disheritor :: Disheritor (n.) One who puts another out of his 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.) A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction..

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

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

Hereditably :: Hereditably (adv.) By inheritance.

Birthright :: Birthright (n.) Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born..

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

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

Patrimonially :: Patrimonially (adv.) By inheritance.

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