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

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..

Coinheritance :: Coinheritance (n.) Joint inheritance.

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

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

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

Inheritably :: Inheritably (adv.) By inheritance.

Primogeniture :: Primogeniture (a.) The exclusive right of inheritance which belongs to the eldest son. Thus in England the right of inheriting the estate of the father belongs to the eldest son, and in the royal family the eldest son of the sovereign is entitled to the throne by primogeniture. In exceptional cases, among the female children, the crown descends by right of primogeniture to the eldest daughter only and her issue..

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

Coparcenary :: Coparcenary (n.) Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession to an inheritance.

Inheritable :: Inheritable (a.) Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir..

Patrimonially :: Patrimonially (adv.) By 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..

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

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

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

Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals..

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..

Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a possession which passes by descent.

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

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