Inheritance - Law Dictionary Search Results
inherit
[Middle French enheriter to make one an heir, from Late Latin inhereditare, from Latin in- in + hereditas inheritance] vt 1 : to receive (property) from an estate by operation of the laws of intestacy ;broadly :
illegitimate
illegitimate child is usually legitimated by his or her parents' later marriage. Illegitimate children generally have the same inheritance rights under intestate successions as legitimate children; statutes limiting their inheritance rights have been found to violate the
entail
entail [Middle English entaillen, from en-, causative prefix + taille restriction on inheritance see tail ] : to make (an estate in real property) a fee tail : limit the descent
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Hereditable
Capable of being inherited See Inheritable
curtesy
life estate upon the death of his wife in the real property that she either solely owned or inherited provided that they bore a child capable of inheriting the property compare dower, elective share
Possessio fratris
and B., by different wives, these two brethren were not brethren of the whole-blood, and therefore could never inherit to each other, but the estate rather escheated to the lord. Nay, even if the father died, and
hereditament
hereditament [Medieval Latin hereditamentum, from Late Latin hereditare to inherit, from Latin hered- heres heir] : inheritable property
Antenati
those born before a certain period, e.g., before marriage. In Scotland marriage removes the illegitimacy of antenati who inherit as heirs; but in England a child legitimated per subsequens matrimonium could not, before 1926, inherit real estate,
Money land
of the qualities of real estate, and is descendible and devisable as such according to the rules of inheritance in other cases, and this upon the ground that equity regards substance and not form, and will further
Mokurrari istimarari
was made or permanent as regards hereditary character. The words do not per se convey an estate of inheritance
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