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

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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

Acquest :: Acquest (n.) Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.) Possession; ownership; acquisition.

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

Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance.

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

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