Defn: Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.
6. (Law)
Defn: 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. Blackstone.
Note: The word inheritance (used simply) is mostly confined to the title to land and tenements by a descent. Mozley & W. 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 inheritance. Locke.
INHERITOR
In*her"it*or, n.
Defn: One who inherits; an heir.
Born inheritors of the dignity. Milton.
INHERITRESS
In*her"it*ress, n.
Defn: A heiress. Milman.
INHERITRIX
In*her"it*rix, n.
Defn: Same as Inheritress. Shak.