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adj. capable of inheriting by law.
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adj. having the legal right to inherit
Word Usage
"In this he would be quite wrong, but quite intelligible and quite sincere; an English aristocrat of the nineteenth century inheriting from the English aristocrats of the eighteenth century; whose views were simply those of Voltaire."