descendibilityn.
/dᵻˌsɛndəˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /dəˌsɛndəˈbɪlᵻdi/, /diˌsɛndəˈbɪlᵻdi/ Law.
Of property, an entitlement, etc.: the property of being transmissible by inheritance.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > capability of
hereditariness1640
descendibility1765
heredity1773
inheritableness1780
inheritability1784
hereditability1798
descendability1830
heritability1832
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 200 He must necessarily take the crown..with all it's inherent properties; the first and principal of which was it's descendibility.
1850 G. L. Craik Romance of Peerage IV. 72 In many cases the peerage which is so carried into a new line would, but for its descendibility through females, have been transmitted..in the old one.
1905 Law Mag. & Rev. Feb. 142 The interest of husband and wife respectively in the lands of each other depended, as did their descendibility and liability for debt, upon the title by which the lands were acquired.
1996 E. R. Gold Body Parts v. 93 Descendibility of the right of publicity removed some of the uncertainty relating to the market value of this right.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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