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Heir

One who inherits or is entitled to succeed to the possession of any property after the death of its owner one

Inheritor

One who inherits an heir

Alody

Alody, inheritable land.

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Feud

Feud, An inheritable estate is land conveyed from a feudal superior to a grantee or tenant, held on conditions of rendering

heritable

heritable : inheritable

Fee-simple

Fee-simple, a freehold estate of inheritance, absolute and unqualified. It stands at the head of estates as the highest in dignity and the most

Heir

Heir [fr. heire, Old Fr.; h'res, Lat.], a person who succeeds by descent to an estate of inheritance. It is nomen collectivum, and extends to all heirs; and under heirs, the heirs of heirs are comprehended

hereditary

hereditary [Latin hereditarius, from hereditas inheritance, from hered- heres heir] 1 : received or passing by inheritance or required to pass by inheritance [

Advowson

patronage self-subsistent, belonging to the patron as an individual, and not in any wise appendant to a corporeal inheritance. While a few advowsons were originally in gross, as when the right originated in an agreement that a

Attendant term

was at its creation limited, or, if deceased, in their personal representatives; but the person entitled to the inheritance then became, according to equitable principle, entitled to the beneficial interest in such term, and the term or

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