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

Inheritably :: Inheritably (adv.) By inheritance.

Cretinism :: Cretinism (n.) A condition of endemic or inherited idiocy, accompanied by physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps..

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..

Successively :: Successive (a.) Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire..

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..

Coinheritance :: Coinheritance (n.) Joint inheritance.

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

Disinherit :: Disinherit (v. t.) To deprive of heritage; to dispossess.

Heirship :: Heirship (n.) The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting..

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..

Disinherit :: Disinherit (v. t.) To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent..

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

Disinherited :: Disinherited (imp. & p. p.) of Disinheri.

Disherit :: Disherit (v. t.) To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance..

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

Parcener :: Parcener (n.) A coheir, or one of two or more persons to whom an estate of inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it is held as one estate..

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..

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..

Esnecy :: Esnecy (n.) A prerogative given to the eldest coparcener to choose first after an inheritance is divided.

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