Definition of inherit

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Inherit (v. t.) To put in possession of.

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Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement..
Coinheritance :: Coinheritance (n.) Joint inheritance.
Patrimony :: Patrimony (n.) A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor..
Exheredate :: Exheredate (v. t.) To disinherit.
Delapse :: Delapse (v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.
Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) Possession; ownership; acquisition.
Parcenary :: Parcenary (n.) The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.
Hereditarily :: Hereditarily (adv.) By inheritance; in an hereditary manner.
Birthdom :: Birthdom (n.) The land of one's birth; one's inheritance.
Transmission :: Transmission (n.) The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor or successors any inheritance, legacy, right, or privilege, to which he is entitled, even if he should die without enjoying or exercising it..
Forisfamiliate :: Forisfamiliate (v. i.) To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.
Demise :: Demise (v. t.) To transfer or transmit by succession or inheritance; to grant or bestow by will; to bequeath.
Portion :: Portion (n.) The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate; an inheritance..
Portion :: Portion (v. t.) To endow with a portion or inheritance.
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..
Inheritable :: Inheritable (a.) Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title..
Inheritably :: Inheritably (adv.) By inheritance.
Appendant :: Appendant (n.) A inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.
Inheritable :: Inheritable (a.) Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir..
Disheir :: Disheir (v. t.) To disinherit.
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