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Definition of Disinheriting
1. disinherit [v] - See also: disinherit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disinheriting
Literary usage of Disinheriting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"the lord chancellor on complaint may make such order therein as he shall see
proper.01 § 613. (c) disinheriting of children. ..."
2. A Practical Treatise of Assets, Debts and Incumbrances by James Ram (1835)
"He makes them residuary legatees of his personalty, and gives a disinheriting
legacy to his heir at law, agreeable to the vulgar notion, taken from the ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"They had the power of disinheriting their children, of sending them away from
home without assigning any reason, and even of punishing them capitally. ..."
4. Commentaries on the Law in Shakespeare: With Explanations of the Legal Terms by Edward Joseph White (1911)
"Testamentary disposition, disinheriting bastard. 173. Landed 'Squire. 174.
Seduction. 175. Arbitration. 176. Usurpation—Denial of rights. 177. Equity. 178. ..."
5. A Treatise on the Exposition of Wills of Landed Property by James Ram (1827)
"OF disinheriting AN HEIR AT LAW. A TITLE by descent is an older branch of the
law of real property, than the right to devise. Lands held in fee descended, ..."
6. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"... will to "children," the word refers to those living at the date of the death
of the testator; but where a will was executed disinheriting the children, ..."
7. The Lands of the Five Civilized Tribes: A Treatise Upon the Law Applicable by Lawrence Mills (1919)
"Revocation of Will of Full Blood disinheriting Relatives 278. Supercedes Section
6500 of Mansfield's Digest. 279. Probate Court Has Jurisdiction to ..."
8. The Ungeared Mind by Robert Howland Chase (1919)
"That a parent should be prohibited, as by the Roman law, from disinheriting his
own children, except for ample reasons, the soundness of ..."
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