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heirloom collapse: something that has been in a family for generations; (law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance

chattel collapse: personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)

effects collapse: property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business; "she left some of her personal effects in the house"; "I watched over their effects until they returned"

birthright collapse: personal characteristics that are inherited at birth; a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth; "free public education is the birthright of every American child"; an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture)

primogeniture collapse: right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son

heritage collapse: practices that are handed down from the past by tradition; "a heritage of freedom"

inheritance collapse: hereditary succession to a title or an office or property; any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors; "my only inheritance was my mother's blessing"; "the world's heritage of knowledge"; (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents; that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner

entail collapse: the act of entailing property; the creation of a fee tail from a fee simple; land received by fee tail; impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result; "What does this move entail?"; have as a logical consequence; "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers"

reversion collapse: turning in the opposite direction; a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation); (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)

zombie collapse: several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur

succession collapse: acquisition of property by descent or by will; the action of following in order; "he played the trumps in sequence"; a group of people or things arranged or following in order; "a succession of stalls offering soft drinks"; "a succession of failures"; (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established

banshee collapse: (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death

dybbuk collapse: (Jewish folklore) a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior

larva collapse: the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose

poltergeist collapse: a ghost that announces its presence with rapping and the creation of disorder

incorporeal collapse: without material form or substance; "an incorporeal spirit"

spook collapse: frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action; "The noise spooked the horse"

theophany collapse: a visible (but not necessarily material) manifestation of a deity to a human person

possession collapse: anything owned or possessed; the act of having and controlling property; (sport) the act of controlling the ball (or puck); "they took possession of the ball on their own goal line"; a territory that is controlled by a ruling state; being controlled by passion or the supernatural

weightless collapse: having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light; "floating freely in a weightless condition"; "a baby bat...fluffy and weightless as a moth"; "jackets made of a weightless polyester fabric"

haunt collapse: a frequently visited place; haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her"; follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to; "her ex-boyfriend stalked her"; "the ghost of her mother haunted her"

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