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Definition of Inheriting
1. Adjective. Having the legal right to inherit.
Definition of Inheriting
1. Verb. (present participle of inherit) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inheriting
1. inherit [v] - See also: inherit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inheriting
Literary usage of Inheriting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rights and Liabilities of Husband and Wife by John Fraser Macqueen (1905)
"Though incident to the birth of inheriting issue, Dot liable to be defeated by the
... On the birth of issue capable of inheriting the wife's real property, ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"... disposing of and inheriting, in like manner as citizens of the United States,
property, real and personal, in those States whose laws permit aliens to ..."
3. A Digest of the Laws of England Respecting Real Property by William Cruise (1824)
"The issue must be such as is capable of inheriting the estate: therefore if lands
be given to a woman and the heirs male of her body, who has issue a ..."
4. Legal Medicine by Charles Meymott Tidy (1884)
"To acquire such life interest, it is necessary that he had issue by her—(a) bor
n alive ; (/}) during the marriage ; (y) capable of inheriting her estate. ..."
5. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1894)
"It says : ' Bastards of the same mother shall be capable of inheriting and
transmitting an inheritance on the part of each other, as if such bastards were ..."
6. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"his father or mother by inheriting any part of the estate of his or her kindred,
either lineal or collateral, unless before his death his parents shall have ..."
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