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Succession

Succession, the power or right of coming to the inheritance of ancestors. See CANONS OF INHERITANCE; DISTRIBUTION. 1. The act

Descent

1926. It is defined in the interpretation clause of the Inheritance Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106), as

Curtesy of England

(English) A.E. Act, 1925, s. 45, with regard to the inheritance of every person dying after 1925, but undr s. 130,

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Copyhold

on the ancestor's death, and is called a copyhold of inheritance. As far as the quantity and modification of interest are

Coparceners or parceners

or parceners. The name given to persons who until 1926 inherited an inheritable estate by virtue of descents from the ancestor

Heritable

Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance inheritable

Appendant

Appendant, a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is more worthy; as an

Quasi-entail

where the subject of the entail is an estate of inheritance), but yet so far in the nature of an estate-tail,

Presentation

gross, may present; and his right descends by cause of inheritance, from heir to heir, or passes to a devisee or

Possessio fratris

were not brethren of the whole-blood, and therefore could never inherit to each other, but the estate rather escheated to the

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