ABSP - Inheritance

Inheritance

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.

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