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Disinheritance

noun

The act by a donor that terminates the right of a person to inherit.

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"Disinheritance" Quotes from Famous Books

... the idea of Gregory Hall as the criminal. He had the same motive as Miss Lloyd. He knew of her uncle's objection to their union, and his threat of disinheritance. How easy for him to come out late from New York, on a night when he was not expected, and remove forever the obstacle ...

— The Gold Bag • Carolyn Wells

... would not hold them so for long. Lady Coryston said to herself that she perfectly understood what Miss Glenwilliam was after. The circumstances of Coryston's disinheritance were now well known to many people; the prospects of the younger son were understood. The Glenwilliams were poor; the prospects of the party doubtful; the girl ambitious. To lay hands on the Coryston estates and the position which a Coryston marriage could ...

— The Coryston Family • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... one of the family and so bereaving it of a member owing duties which, by his disinheritance, may fall into abeyance or be neglected, the parent calls together all to whom his son might perhaps ultimately become the only living representative and heir, and who might at some future time be dependent on ...

— On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay • Hugh E. Seebohm

... passed into the hands of strangers. There would be no Bonbright Foote VIII who, in his turn, should become the father of Bonbright Foote IX, and so following. No, he did not hold even tentatively the idea of disinheritance. ...

— Youth Challenges • Clarence B Kelland

Words linked to "Disinheritance" : discontinuation, discontinuance, disinherit