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Where letties hereditate a dark mien swart hairy? —
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Hae sunt meae imagines, haec nobilitas, non hereditate relicta, ut illa illis, sed quae egomet plurimis laboribus et periculis quaesivi.
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Law, _Tit_., 62: _de alodis_, 6: de terra vero Salica in mulierem nulla portio hereditatis transit, sed hoc virilis sexus adquirat, hoc est, filii in ipsa hereditate succedunt.
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MSS. were placed there, with this inscription upon each: _Ex hereditate doctissimi viri Nicola de Nicolis de Florentiâ_.
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/2 "Ab eo ... in cujus locum hereditate vel emptione aliove quo iure successi."
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_hereditatibus_, multa _emptionibus_, multa dotibus tenebantur sine iniuria '; for this sense of _relicta_, compare Nepos _Att_ 13 2' domum habuit ... ab auunculo hereditate _relictam_ ', Livy XXII 26 1' pecunia a patre _relicta_ ', and Martial X xlvii 3' res non parta labore, sed
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64 Tulit ut ea familia quae ex Attali hereditate erat ageretur et populo divideretur, Cf. Plut.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
erinmckean commented on the word hereditate
"Like the word inherit, but limited to characteristics obtained genetically. You can't hereditate money like you can inherit money, but you can hereditate hair color, or a big nose."
January 4, 2015