disinheritancen.
The fact of disinheriting, or of being disinherited; dispossession from an 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 > disinheritance
disherisonc1290
disheriting1388
disheritancea1450
exheredation1515
disinheritance1540
disinherison1543
disinheriting1583
exhereditation1583
disinheritation1835
disheritment1881
1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 9 §1 Vexation, troubles, wrongs and disinheritance hath followed.
1660 R. Coke Justice Vindicated ii. 36 To the dispossession and disinheritance of another.
1789 Trifler No. 39. 506 He was enjoined..upon pain of disinheritance.
1843 W. H. Mill Observ. Gospel ii. 257 By a direct sentence of disinheritance.
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