What is "inheriting"

Usage examples of "inheriting".

According to this letter, if I and the inheriting family shareholders all attend this meeting, there will be eighty-five votes available.

Note: No solution seems more probable, than that the ancient lawgivers of the Salic Franks prohibited females from inheriting the lands assigned to the nation, upon its conquest of Gaul, both in compliance with their ancient usages, and in order to secure the military service of every proprietor.

After Loder had discovered I would be inheriting Dozen Roses, there had been no lower vibrations at all.

Even though she was years from inheriting, she'd always known the money was there, that she could offer a million dollars for information she desperately needed.

She'd been lugging the awkward thing around in her life for fifteen years, in one form or another, since inheriting the seventy-year-old bonsai from her great-aunt.

After inheriting ImpSec from Negri the Great, he claimed all he had to do in order to unnerve his opponents was stand there and keep his mouth shut.

I only did because I couldn't stand the thought of my brothers-in-law inheriting the estate.

It still seemed a little unnatural to Raj, gaining wealth without inheriting or plundering it.

Even though she was years from inheriting, she’d always known the money was there, that she could offer a million dollars for information she desperately needed.