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Breed :: Breed (n.) A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance..

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

Exheredation :: Exheredation (n.) A disinheriting; disherisor.

Birthright :: Birthright (n.) Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born..

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

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

Coinheritor :: Coinheritor (n.) A coheir.

Fee :: Fee (n.) An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure..

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

Disherison :: Disherison (n.) The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinhersion..

Curtesy :: Curtesy (n.) the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands..

Coparcener :: Coparcener (n.) One who has an equal portion with others of an 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..

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..

Hereditable :: Hereditable (a.) Qualified to inherit; capable of inheriting.

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

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

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

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

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..

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