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Heritage :: Heritage (a.) That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance..

Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement..

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..

Coinheritance :: Coinheritance (n.) Joint inheritance.

Patrimonially :: Patrimonially (adv.) By inheritance.

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

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

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

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

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

Inheritably :: Inheritably (adv.) By inheritance.

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

Fee :: Fee (n.) An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure..

Coheir :: Coheir (n.) A joint heir; one of two or more heirs; one of several entitled to an inheritance.

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..

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

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

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..

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

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