Disinheritance
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The act by which a person deprives his heir of an inheritance, who, without such act, would inherit. By the common law, any one may give his estate to a stranger, and thereby disinherit his heir apparent.
Cooper, Just. Inst. 495; 7 East, 106.