(n.) Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations.

bequeathal bequest birthright borough-English coheirship coparcenary entail gavelkind heirship hereditament heritable heritage heritance incorporeal hereditament inheritance law of succession legacy line of succession mode of succession patrimony postremogeniture primogeniture reversion succession ultimogeniture