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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• inheritance:
      1. 1. hērēdĭtas (the condition of a heres; also, the property coming to such): i. is succession to the entire rights enjoyed by one deceased, h. est successio in universum jus quod defunctus habuit, Gai. Dig. 50, 16, 24: to come to any one by i., hereditate alicui venire, Cic. Inv. 1, 45, 84; obvenire, Varr. R. R. 1, 12, med.: Plin.: to receive an i., capere h. ab aliquo, Cic. Caec. 35, 102; consequi, Nep. Att. 21: to enter on possession of an i., h. adire, Cic. Ph. 2, 16, extr. (the legal act was cretio: v. Dict. Ant. s. v. heres): you say I receive no i.s, hereditates mihi venire negasti, Cic. l. c. init.
      2. 2. successio (hereditary succession): v. to inherit. Phr.: as an inheritance, may be expr. by hereditarius: cf. Liv. 21, 3, hereditarii sint relicti exercitus nostri, left as an inheritance: v. hereditary.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• INHERITANCE
hereditas (the right of heirship, and the sum of the things belonging to the inheritance): Inheritance by will, hereditas ex testamento; without a wil, hereditas ab intestato (this is called legitima, the lawful, necessary; the former testamentaria; all in the Jurisconsults): an inheritance not yet entered upon, hereditas jacens: a common inheritance, hereditas communis: a joint inheritance, communis herediras, quae ad utrumque aequaliter lege veniebat. To fix one’s heart upon an inheritance, oculos hereditati adjicere; hereditatem persequi: to receive an inheritance, hereditatem consequi or capere: I receive an inheritance, hereditas mihi venit, obvenit; hereditas ad me venit or pervenit: to receive a rich inheritance, adipisci effertissimam hereditatem (Plaut., Capt., 4, 1, 8); magna ac luculenta hereditas alicui obtingit: something comes to me by inheritance, hereditate mihi aliquid venit or obvenit: to have part in an inheritance, habere partem in hereditate; vocari in partem hereditatis: to take possession of an inheritance, hereditatem adire, cernere, adire cernereque; cretionem capere (Plin., 2, 26, 24; figuratively): to decline, refuse an inheritance, se abstinere hereditate; hereditatem omittere, repudiare (Jurisconsulti): to claim and take possession of an inheritance, hereditati se miscere or se immiscere (ib.): to obtain, or to endeavor to obtain, an inheritance surreptitiously, testamentum captare: to exclude anybody from an inheritance, aliquem excludere hereditate.