Inherit

Inherit in United Kingdom

Meaning of Inherit

The following is an old definition of Inherit [1]: To take property by descent as an heir. As used by a testator, may refer to lands devised or conveyed by an ancestor. May refer to a distributive share of the proceeds arising from the sale of land. Disinherit. To direct by will that an heir shall receive no part of the testator’s estate. See Inofficious. Heritable. Capable of taking, or of passing, by descent. Inheritance. An estate which descends, or may descend, to the heir upon the death of the ancestor; also, the fact of receiving an estate as heir. Estates of freehold are estates of inheritance, absolute or limited; and estates not of inheritance, or for life only. In its popular acceptation, ” inheritance ” includes all the methods by which a child or relative takes property from another at his death, except by devise, and includes as well succession as descent. As applied to personalty, signifies succession. An estate acquired by inheritance is one that has descended to the heir, and been cast upon him by the single operation of law. Shifting inheritance. An inheritance liable to be defeated by the birth of a nearer heir. Does not prevail in the United States, where change of title from the living person is made by deed, rather than by the statute of descent, as in England where the canons of descent are designed to accumulate property in the hands of a few. By the rule of shifting inheritances, ” If an estate is given to an only child, who dies, it may descend to an aunt, who may be stripped of it by an after-born vmcle, on whom a subsequent sister of the deceased may enter, and who again will be deprived of the estate by the birth of a brother.” See Descent; Freehold; Heib; Sdocession; Waste, 1.

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  1. Concept of Inherit provided by the Anderson Dictionary of Law (1889) (Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims and an Exposition of the Principles of Law: Comprising a Dictionary and Compendium of American and English Jurisprudence; William C. Anderson; T. H. Flood and Company, Law Publishers, Chicago, United States)

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