Inheritance

Title to lands and tenants by descent. An estate of inheritance is an estate in lands and tenements to a man and his heirs; the word inheritance is not only intended where a man has lands or tenements by descent or heritage, but also every free simple or fee tail, which a person has by purchase, may be said to be an inheritance, because his heirs may inherit it after him. One may have an inheritance by creation, as in the case of the king's grant of peerage, by letters patent, etc. Corporeal or handled; incorporeal inheritance are rights issuing out of, annexed to, or exercised with, corporeal inheritances, as advowsons tithes, annuities, offices, commons, franchise, privileges, services, etc. There is also several inheritance, which is where two or more hold lands severally; if two men have lands given to them and the heirs of their two bodies, these have a joint estate during their lives, but their have several inheritances. Goods and chattels cannot be turned into an inheritance.

Cannons of inheritance are the rules directing the decent of real property throughout the lineal and collateral consanguinity of the owner dying intestate, who is technically called the purchaser.