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Perigenesis :: Perigenesis (n.) A theory which explains inheritance by the transmission of the type of growth force possessed by one generation to another.

Inherit :: Inherit (v. i.) To take or hold a possession, property, estate, or rights by inheritance..

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

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

Exhereditation :: Exhereditation (n.) A disinheriting; disherison.

Coinheritance :: Coinheritance (n.) Joint inheritance.

Lineal :: Lineal (a.) Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).

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

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..

Inherit :: Inherit (v. t.) To receive or take by birth; to have by nature; to derive or acquire from ancestors, as mental or physical qualities; as, he inherits a strong constitution, a tendency to disease, etc..

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

Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law..

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..

Nobility :: Nobility (n.) The state of being of high rank or noble birth; patrician dignity; antiquity of family; distinction by rank, station, or title, whether inherited or conferred..

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

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

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

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..

Inheritable :: Inheritable (a.) Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title..

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