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inheritance tax

inheritance tax : an excise tax that is levied upon the

take or hold a possession property estate or rights by inheritance

By inheritance

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The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs

a person who succeeds by descent to an estate of inheritance. It is nomen collectivum, and extends to all heirs; and

heir : one who inherits or is entitled to succeed to the possession of property

their own right, were postponed to males, yet they might inherit together with males by representa-tion. 'If a man have three

Hereditaments, every kind of property that can be inherited; i.e., not only property which a person has by descent

also the root of descent, from whom, under the (English) Inheritance Act, 1833, the descent was in every case to be

Fee-simple, a freehold estate of inheritance, absolute and unqualified. It stands at the head of estates

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