heirship

Right to inherit

Heirship is the status or right of being an heir—the legal position of someone entitled to inherit property or a title upon another's death.

The term appears most often in legal contexts: The court determined heirship through DNA testing.

An affidavit of heirship is a document establishing someone's right to inherit.

legal

succession

Following in order

bequestGift left by will
estateProperty and grounds
deviseCreate through ingenuity

entitlement · patrimony · beneficiary · intestacy · probate · testator · executor · administrator · decedent · vesting

birthright

entitlement

Assumed right to benefits

patrimonyInherited estate or legacy
privilegeExclusive right or benefit
prerogativeExclusive right of office

due · primogeniture · claim · endowment · legacy · blessing · covenant · ancestral · tradition · inalienable

lineage

genealogy

Study of family descent

pedigreeRecord of descent
descentDownward slope or lineage
bloodlineAncestry through generations

ancestry · progenitors · forebears · kinship · dynasty · house · clan · family · ancestors · forefathers

succession

throne

Ceremonial chair for sovereigns

crownSovereign's ornamental headpiece
coronationCeremony installing a sovereign
monarchHereditary supreme ruler

sovereign · regent · ascension · dynasty · royalty · nobility · prince · princess · abdication · interregnum

Categories

inheritanceinheritances, bequest, bequests, beneficiary, beneficiaries
Indian Landtribal land, allotment, fractionation, cession, checkerboard
intestacyintestacy, surviving spouse, descent, per stirpes, per capita
Jewish Inheritancebirthright, double portion, firstborn, primogeniture, estate division
probateexecutor, probate court, probate, beneficiary, executors
Roman inheritancetestament, testator, intestate, legatee, bequest

Opposites

inheritance status

heirshipdisinheritance

Exclusion from inheritance

disinheriting · disownment · intestacy · attainder · forfeiture

property transfer direction

heirshiptestacy

Having made a will

property acquisition mode

heirshipself-made wealth

Money earned independently

earned income · purchase · entrepreneurship

Family

heritage, heir, inheritance, heirs, heredity, heiress, hereditary, disinherit, heritable

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