Definition of inheritance

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Inheritance (n.) A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction..

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Esnecy :: Esnecy (n.) A prerogative given to the eldest coparcener to choose first after an inheritance is divided.
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..
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..
Hereditarily :: Hereditarily (adv.) By inheritance; in an hereditary manner.
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..
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..
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..
Purchaser :: Purchaser (n.) One who acquires an estate in lands by his own act or agreement, or who takes or obtains an estate by any means other than by descent or inheritance..
Disherison :: Disherison (n.) The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinhersion..
Coparcenary :: Coparcenary (n.) Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession to an inheritance.
Coparcener :: Coparcener (n.) One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance.
Heritable :: Heritable (a.) Capable of inheriting or receiving by inheritance.
Cleronomy :: Cleronomy (n.) Inheritance; heritage.
Disheritor :: Disheritor (n.) One who puts another out of his inheritance.
Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities..
Forisfamiliate :: Forisfamiliate (v. t.) Literally, to put out of a family; hence, to portion off, so as to exclude further claim of inheritance; to emancipate (as a with his own consent) from paternal authority..
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..
Parage :: Parage (n.) Equality of condition, blood, or dignity; also, equality in the partition of an inheritance..
Inherit :: Inherit (v. i.) To take or hold a possession, property, estate, or rights by inheritance..
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