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Conquest :: Conquest (n.) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.

Freehold :: Freehold (n.) An estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held..

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

Patrimonially :: Patrimonially (adv.) By inheritance.

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

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

Hereditary :: Hereditary (a.) Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown..

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

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

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

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..

Disinherit :: Disinherit (v. t.) To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent..

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

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..

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

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

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

Disherit :: Disherit (v. t.) To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance..

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..

Transmit :: Transmit (v. t.) To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, to transmit a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money, or bills of exchange, from one country to another..

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