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enheriter1 (s.xiiex)
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enheriter1 (s.xiiex)

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eneriter,  enheritier;  inheriter  
  FEW:  hereditare 4,411a Gdf:  enheriter 3,189b GdfC: ∅ TL: enireter 3,427 DEAF:  eriter (enireter)  DMF:  enhériter  TLF: ∅ OED:  inherit v.  MED:  enheriten v.  DMLBS:  inhereditare 1376b

v.trans.

1lawto attribute right of inheritance to: 
( 1314 )  Vous pledetz plus a disheriter l’enfaunt qe de inheriter le  YBB Ed II xviii 181
♦lawto make the inheritor: 
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Owein l’enfant bien feffa, De tote sa terre l’enherita (var. (L: c.1335) li herita)  Amis 1238
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  A Terri ma fille durrai E de ma terre enheriterai  Gui War 6702
2lawto inherit: 
( 1466 )  l’eir ou celui que inheriteroit le terre eux averoit  Readings 43.20

v.intrans.

to inherit: 
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiii3/3? )  Viengent avant cil leger bacheler, Cil que de France se voldrunt enheriter, As branz d'ascer la viengent aquiter  Otinel 1545

v.absol.

lawto inherit: 
( c.1433 )  [...] sinoun que lour issue poit per possibilitie enheriter  Readings i App. X 185

p.pr. as s.

lawone entitled to inherit: 
( 1397 )  qe les receantz, terretenantz, et toutz les enheritanz deins les ditz chastelx [...] enjoient touz leur anciens loyes  Rot Parl1 iii 354

p.p. as a.

1lawby right of inheritance: 
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Sir E. de L. est counte enheryté  LANGTOFT wright ii 134
2lawholding by inheritance: 
( 1316 )  Une Alice enherité de .vij. acres de terre prist baroun  YBB Ed II xx 99
estre enherité
lawto have right of inheritance: 
( c.1260; MS: c.1275 )  si un home franceys fust enherité en Engleterre [...]  Casus Plac 78
( 1389-90 )  par cest clause [...] il [...] voet qe nul autre heir serra enherité  YBB 13 Rich II 28
♦lawto hold by inheritance: 
( MS: s.xiiiex )  Ore avez oi dé .vij. fiz Saphadis cumment il sunt enherité  Relatio Tripartita 122
( 1316 )  en la aunciene ley il fust enherité et morust seisi  YBB Ed II xx 132
♦lawto be entitled to an inheritance: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  est chescun franc homme del reaume enheritié des franchises de la chartre  Mir Just 176
( 1471-72 )  les serjants de le ley soient enherités et enheritable par le ley de la terre [...]  Exchequer Chamber ii 189

See also:

aheriter  heriter2  reenheriter 
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