7 sentences with 'inherit'

Example sentences and phrases with the word inherit and other words derived from it.

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« Serfs could not inherit property or even leave the land they worked without their lord's permission. »
« If it is possible to inherit a taste for gardening and an appreciation of the natural world, then I received those gifts from my grandfather. »
« Legally, women in the Middle Ages could inherit and own property independently, and in most cases retained control of the dowry brought into the marriage. »
« Having done this, it is clear that Archaic women enjoyed social influence and some access to economic power, being able to inherit property and receiving social approval for the skilful management of households. »
« An important social change that took place was that royal officials outside the capital began to inherit titles, and so it was the first time that there was a true noble class with its own inherited power and land. »
« The Germanic peoples themselves had begun as minorities, ruling over former Roman subjects. They tended to inherit the Roman bureaucracy and to rely on its officials and laws to govern their subjects, but they also had their own traditions of Germanic law based on clan membership. »
« When Pipin the Short died in 768, his sons Charlemagne and Charles Martel each inherited half the kingdom. However, when Charles Martel died a few years later, Charlemagne ignored the right of Charles Martel's sons to inherit his lands and took it all (his nephews were subsequently murdered). »

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