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Definition of inherit

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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..

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

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

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

Parcenary :: Parcenary (n.) The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.

Heir :: Heir (n.) One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter..

Portion :: Portion (v. t.) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

Secundo-geniture :: Secundo-geniture (n.) A right of inheritance belonging to a second son; a property or possession so inherited.

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

Inheritability :: Inheritability (n.) The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs.

Inheritress :: Inheritress (n.) A heiress.

Patrimonially :: Patrimonially (adv.) By inheritance.

Inheritable :: Inheritable (a.) Capable of being transmitted from parent to child; as, inheritable qualities or infirmities..

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

Delapse :: Delapse (v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.

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

Able :: Able (superl.) Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property..

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..

Freeborn :: Freeborn (a.) Born free; not born in vassalage; inheriting freedom.

Disheritor :: Disheritor (n.) One who puts another out of his inheritance.

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