Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of cutting off from hereditary succession; the act of disinheriting.
  • noun The state of being disinherited.

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  • noun Same as disherison.

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  • noun disherison

Etymologies

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See disinherit, and compare disherison.

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Examples

  • This last practice is objectionable too, as encouraging celibacy, and the disinherison of heirs. —

    The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia 1900

  • And this disinherison was first allowed by the lex Iunia Vallaea, which explains the form which is to be used, and which resembles that employed in disinheriting family heirs born after the making of a will.

    The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891

  • Inasmuch as the disinherison or omission by parents of their children has generally no good reason, those children who complain that they have been wrongfully disinherited or passed over have been allowed to bring an action impeaching the will as unduteous, under the pretext that the testator was of unsound mind at the time of its execution.

    The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891

  • It is one of those fables that the disinherited folk have at all times invented to solace themselves for their disinherison.

    Old French Romances William Morris 1865

  • They tell us of the boundless license of disinherison in which the heads of families instantly began to indulge, of the scandal and injury to public morals which the new practices engendered, and of the applause of all good men which hailed the courage of the Prætor in arresting the progress of paternal depravity.

    Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Henry Sumner Maine 1855

  • It did not forbid the disinherison of direct descendants, inasmuch as it did not legislate against a contingency which no Roman lawgiver of that era could have contemplated.

    Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Henry Sumner Maine 1855

  • Tables, we find a variety of rules engrafted on the Roman Civil Law with the view of limiting the disinherison of children; we have the jurisdiction of the Prætor very actively exerted in the same interest; and we are also presented with a new remedy, very anomalous in character and of uncertain origin, called the Querela Inofficiosi

    Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Henry Sumner Maine 1855

  • No doubt, as the offices of family affection progressively lost the aspect of primary personal duties, the disinherison of children was occasionally attempted.

    Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Henry Sumner Maine 1855

  • I haTe abeady abridged die fourteen causes of disinherison in tfaatnovel, hm diey are alsobrieflf comprized in the foUowi«g TevMS.

    The Institutes of Justinian Thomas Cooper , George Harris 1812

  • 7 A mother or maternal grandfather is not bound to institute her or his children or grandchildren; they may simply omit them, for silence on the part of a mother, or of a maternal grandfather or other ascendant, has the same effect as actual disinherison by a father.

    The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891

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