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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..

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

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

Disinheriting :: Disinheriting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disinheri.

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

Inheriting :: Inheriting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inheri.

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

Hereditable :: Hereditable (a.) Capable of being inherited. See Inheritable.

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

Hereditament :: Hereditament (n.) Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir..

Hereditably :: Hereditably (adv.) By 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..

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

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..

Exheredate :: Exheredate (v. t.) To disinherit.

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.

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..

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

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