| adeem |
to cancel a bequest by destruction of the thing bequeathed. |
| ademption |
the revoking by testator, donor, etc., of a legacy, donation, etc., by previously paying a sum or parting with the object bequeathed. |
| apparent |
seeming: APPARENTLY; (noun, Shakesp.) an heir-apparent: APPARENTS. |
| bequeath |
to grant by testament. |
| bequeather+ |
one who bequeaths. |
| bequest |
a legacy. |
| codicil |
a supplement to a will. [L. codicillus, dim. of codex]. |
| coexecutor |
a joint executor. |
| coheir |
a joint heir; one of two or more heirs. |
| coheiress |
a joint heiress. |
| coheritor |
a joint heir; one of two or more heirs. |
| coparcenary coparcenery |
joint heirship or ownership. |
| coparcener |
one who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance. |
| curtesy |
the lifetime right of a husband to a deceased wife's property. |
| cypres |
the legal doctrine of applying money left for a charity to an object as close as possible to the original when the original is impractical: CYPRESES. |
| demise |
to give to a successor; to bequeath by will. |
| devastavit |
waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator. |
| devisal |
the act of devising or bequeathing real property (as contrasted with personal property). |
| devisee |
one to whom property is bequeathed in a will. |
| devisor |
one who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator. |
| disentail |
to free from entailment. |
| disherison |
the act of disheriting. |
| disherit disinherit |
to deprive of an inheritance. |
| disheritor |
one who puts another out of his inheritance. |
| disponee |
the person to whom any property is legally conveyed. |
| entail |
to settle an estate on a series of heirs, so that the immediate possessor may not dispose of it. |
| entailer |
one who ENTAILS (an estate). |
| entailment |
the act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent. |
| escheat |
the reversion of property to the state or crown in case of no legal heirs; property that has reverted to the crown; (verb) to make an escheat of; hand over as an escheat to or into. |
| escheatage |
the right of succeeding to an ESCHEAT. |
| escheatment |
forfeiture of property to state for lack of heir. |
| esnecy |
the eldest daughter's right of first choice in dividing an inheritance. |
| excheat |
= ESCHEAT, property that falls to the state or feudal lord for lack of an heir. |
| executor |
one who administrates a will. |
| executress executrix |
a woman exercising the functions of an EXECUTOR. The pl. of EXECUTRIX is EXECUTRICES or EXECUTRIXES. |
| exheredate |
to disinherit. |
| gavelkind |
a system of land inheritance by all sons equally, rather than by the eldest son. |
| haeres heres |
an heir: HAEREDES, HEREDES. |
| heir |
one who inherits; (verb) to inherit. |
| heirdom |
the state of an heir; succession by inheritance. |
| heiress |
a female inheritor. |
| heirless |
destitute of an heir. |
| heirloom |
an inherited possession. |
| heirship |
the state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting. |
| hereditament |
inheritance; hereditable property. |
| hereditariness |
the state of being HEREDITARY. |
| hereditary |
genetically transmitted or transmittable from parent to offspring. |
| heres |
see HAERES. |
| heretrix heritrix |
a heiress: HERETRIXES or HERETRICES, HERITRIXES or HERITRICES. |
| heritability |
the state of being heritable. |
| heritable |
capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance: HERITABLY. |
| heritage |
something that is inherited. |
| heritress |
an heiress, a female heir. |
| heritrix |
see HERETRIX. |
| inherit |
to receive by legal succession. |
| inheritable |
capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance: INHERITABLY(+). |
| inheritableness |
the state of being INHERITABLE. |
| inheritor |
one who inherits. |
| inheritress |
a female INHERITOR. |
| inheritrix |
a female inheritor: INHERITRICES or INHERITRIXES. |
| intestacy |
the condition or fact of dying without having made a will. |
| intestate |
not having made a will. |
| jointress jointuress |
a woman who has a JOINTURE. |
| jointure |
the settlement of a husband's estate on his wife to become effective on his death; (verb) to settle a JOINTURE on. |
| jointuress |
see JOINTRESS. |
| legacy |
something bequeathed. |
| legatary |
a person to whom a bequest is left; a LEGATEE. |
| legatee |
one to whom a legacy is bequeathed. |
| legator |
a testator; one who bequeaths a legacy. |
| legatorial+ |
like a LEGATOR. |
| legitim |
the portion of movable estate to which the children are entitled upon the death of the father. |
| majorat |
the right of succession to property according to age; -- so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe. |
| nuncupative nuncupatory |
of a will or testament: declared orally. |
| parcenary |
the state of being a PARCENER, coheirship. |
| parcener |
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. |
| patrimony |
an inheritance from one's father or ancestors. |
| preterition |
the act of passing over or omitting; the omission by a testator of some one of his entitled heirs, thus invalidating the will. |
| primogenit |
a first-born. |
| primogenitive |
primogeniture. |
| primogeniture |
the principle of inheritance by the eldest child. |
| probate |
to obtain probate of, prove (a will). |
| residuary |
consisting of residue; as, residuary matter. |
| reversioner |
person entitled to receive an estate after the reversion (grant) runs out. |
| revertible |
capable of being reverted; as, a revertible estate. |
| secundogeniture |
a custom whereby the second-oldest child inherits property. |
| tail taillie tailye tailzie |
an entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted. |
| testacy |
the state of being testate. |
| testament |
that which testifies; a will. |
| testate |
one who has made and left a valid will. |
| testator |
a (male) person who leaves a valid will at death. |
| testatrix |
a (female) person who leaves a valid will at death: TESTATRIXES or TESTATRICES. |
| trustee |
to act as a trustee. |
| trusteeship |
the office of TRUSTEE. |
| willable |
that can be willed or disposed of by will. |
