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Inheritor :: Inheritor (n.) One who inherits; an heir.

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

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..

Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) Possession; ownership; acquisition.

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

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

Inherited :: Inherited (imp. & p. p.) of Inheri.

Coheiress :: Coheiress (n.) A female heir who inherits with other heiresses; a joint heiress.

Coparceny :: Coparceny (n.) An equal share of an inheritance.

Inheritably :: Inheritably (adv.) By inheritance.

Transmit :: Transmit (v. t.) To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, to transmit a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money, or bills of exchange, from one country to another..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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