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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..

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

Heritable :: Heritable (a.) Capable of inheriting or receiving by inheritance.

Rightful :: Rightful (a.) Belonging, held, or possessed by right, or by just claim; as, a rightful inheritance; rightful authority..

Inheritably :: Inheritably (adv.) By inheritance.

Fee :: Fee (n.) An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner..

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

Acquest :: Acquest (n.) Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance..

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

Inheritable :: Inheritable (a.) Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir..

Cleronomy :: Cleronomy (n.) Inheritance; heritage.

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..

Coinheritance :: Coinheritance (n.) Joint inheritance.

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..

Coparcenary :: Coparcenary (n.) Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession to an inheritance.

Disinheritance :: Disinheritance (n.) The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison..

Delapse :: Delapse (v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.

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..

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

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

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