Part 5856

<blockquote>When the man dies, let the <b>inheritance</b> Descend unto the daughter. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction.</def>

<blockquote>To an <b>inheritance</b> incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away. <i>1 Pet. i. 4.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Possession; ownership; acquisition.</def> "The <i>inheritance</i> of their loves."

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>To you th' <b>inheritance</b> belongs by right Of brother's praise; to you eke <?/longs his love. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law.</def>

<i>Blackstone.</i>

<note>&hand; The word <i>inheritance</i> (used simply) is mostly confined to the title to land and tenements by a descent.</note>

<i>Mozley & W.</i>

<blockquote>Men are not proprietors of what they have, merely for themselves; their children have a title to part of it which comes to be wholly theirs when death has put an end to their parents' use of it; and this we call <b>inheritance</b>. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Inheritor</h1> <Xpage=764>

<hw>In*her"it*or</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who inherits; an heir.</def>

<blockquote>Born <b>inheritors</b> of the dignity. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Inheritress</h1> <Xpage=764>

<hw>In*her"it*ress</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A heiress.</def>

<i>Milman.</i>

<h1>Inheritrix</h1> <Xpage=764>

<hw>In*her"it*rix</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Inheritress</er>.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Inherse</h1> <Xpage=764>

<hw>In*herse"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <def>See <er>Inhearse</er>.</def>

<h1>Inhesion</h1> <Xpage=764>

<hw>In*he"sion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>inhaesio</ets>. See <er>Inhere</er>.]</ety> <def>The state of existing, of being inherent, in something; inherence.</def>

<i>A. Baxter.</i>

<blockquote>Constant <b>inhesion</b> and habitual abode. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Inhiation</h1> <Xpage=764>