Lexicographical Neighbors of Disheriting
Literary usage of Disheriting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Greater Britain as Well England as Scotland by John Major, Aeneas James George Mackay, Thomas Graves Law (1892)
"Of the vain attempt that mas made to seduce the Scots from the French alliance;
and of the disheriting of the ..."
2. The Two Books of Homilies Appointed to be Read in Churches by Church of England, John Griffiths (1859)
"... the pitiful undoing of their wives and children, 15 and disheriting* of the
heirs of the rebels for ever, the spoiling, wasting, and destruction of the ..."
3. Publications by Spalding Club, Aberdeen (1848)
"... disheriting, banishing, or undoing, the said Lord Forbes and his partie, shall
defend them at all their ..."
4. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"Of course there is no institution of an heir and there is no disheriting clause.
In Latin ' do, lego' are the proper words of gift; in French 'jeo devis'; ..."
5. Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from by John Campbell Campbell (1847)
"That he shall not know nor suffer the hurt or disheriting of the King, or that
the rights of the Crown be decreased by any means as far as he may let it. 5. ..."
6. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"... and more may happen in time to come in disheriting of the crown and great
prejudice of the kingdom for divers causes that a man may declare that it will ..."
7. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet (1829)
"... and had such talking with him, as after was a great part of his destruction,
and disheriting of his blood, and great slander and infamy of religion. ..."
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