Legacies or inheritancesgiven by trust had originally no binding legal force, because no one could be compelled against his will to do what he was merely asked to do.
Some, however, understand this of the distribution of inheritances according to the preceding determinations, whereby some have a larger share than others.
As to the share they are to have in the distribution of the inheritances of their deceased relations; for it seems that the Arabs were not satisfied with Mohammed's decision on this point, against the old customs.
Which fine is to be distributed according to the laws of inheritances given in the beginning of this chapter.
He hath already made his will known unto you, by revealing the passages concerning inheritances in the beginning of this chapter.
Numbers Chapter 36 That the inheritances may not be alienated from one tribe to another, all are to marry within their own tribes.
Many readers, although they see the common sense of such non-resistance, will find it difficult to practise it, because of their inheritances and personal habits.
You are a Child of the Absolute, if you prefer the term, possessed of the Divine Heritage, and whose mission it is to unfold qualities which are your inheritances from your Parent.
The heaven of the Saints is something we can look forward to in the confident hope of realizing our inheritances and enjoying them forever, when the earth becomes sanctified and made new.
It is a kind of joint stock inheritance, we are to become joint heirs with Jesus Christ to all the inheritances and to all the worlds that are made.
But there is no real self-sufficiency, and Emerson and Whitman themselves, in other moods, have written most suggestive passages upon our European inheritances and affiliations.
Why need I mention his decrees, his robberies, the possessions of inheritances which were given him, and those too which were seized by him?
But there were other possessions which bore a nearer resemblance to fiefs, at least in their first feeble and infantile state of the tenure, than, those inheritances which were held by an absolute right in the proprietor.
By a law of King Alfred it appears that they were then of a very ancient establishment: and as such inheritances were intended for great stability, they fortified them by charters; and therefore they were called Book-land.
The new imposition on legacies and inheritances was, however, mitigated by some restrictions.
Of the several impositions introduced by Augustus, the twentieth on inheritances and legacies was the most fruitful, as well as the most comprehensive.
William Smith and Don Carlos Smith--voted by the conference that the above named brethren be remembered to the Bishop in Zion as being worthy of inheritances among the people of the Lord according to the laws of said Church.
And if they are not faithful, they shall not have fellowship in the {270} Church; yet they may remain upon theirinheritances according to the laws of the land.
Wisconsin and California have introduced an interesting innovation by providing a further graded tax on inheritances in accordance with the degree of consanguinity between the testator and the beneficiary.
In the Greens, likewise, Brinnaria owned stock; and, having entered into inheritances from more than seventy different wealthy relatives who had died during the pestilence, she happened to own stock in every one of the six great companies.
And, above all, observe the aforesaid number 5040 throughout life; in the second place, do not disparage the small and modest proportions of the inheritances which you received in the distribution, by buying and selling them to one another.
I feel more inclined to trace it straight back to old Dame Nature--all the ancestral inheritances down in our sub-cellars.
Your wife's fortune, which will be increased by two inheritances --from her uncle and her grandfather.
November 27 the Lord stated that he would send one mighty and strong to arrange the inheritances of the Saints in Zion (Doc.
His great duty was to divide the inheritances of the members, severally, according to their needs.
To accept the governor's proposition to sell their lands, was out of the question; as soon would they expect to sell their children, for the Lord had commanded them to retain their possessions, or inheritances in that land.
Sidney Rigdon preached and exhorted the Saints "to obedience to the requisition of heaven," that they might be planted in their inheritances in Zion.
The Church was instructed to purchase lands in Jackson and neighboring counties, for inheritances for the Saints.
The traditional cultures, the social inheritances of ages of isolation, are now in a world-process of interaction and modification as a result of the rapidity and the impact of these modern means of the circulation of ideas and sentiments.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inheritances" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
