Definition of inheritance

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

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Coinheritance :: Coinheritance (n.) Joint 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..
Rightful :: Rightful (a.) Belonging, held, or possessed by right, or by just claim; as, a rightful inheritance; rightful authority..
Breed :: Breed (n.) A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance..
Forisfamiliate :: Forisfamiliate (v. i.) To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.
Disherit :: Disherit (v. t.) To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance..
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..
Fee :: Fee (n.) An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner..
Cleronomy :: Cleronomy (n.) Inheritance; heritage.
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..
Disinheritance :: Disinheritance (n.) The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison..
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.
Acquest :: Acquest (n.) Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance..
Coparcenary :: Coparcenary (n.) Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession to an inheritance.
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..
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..
Heirdom :: Heirdom (n.) The state of an heir; succession by inheritance.
Coparceny :: Coparceny (n.) An equal share of an inheritance.
Parage :: Parage (n.) Equality of condition, blood, or dignity; also, equality in the partition of an 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..
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