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Birthright

Birthright Meaning & Definition
Birthright Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Birthright?

[n] personal characteristics that are inherited at birth
[n] a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth; "free public education is the birthright of every American child"
[n] an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Birthright: patrimony

Related Terms | Find terms related to Birthright: appanage | appurtenance | authority | bequeathal | bequest | borough-English | claim | coheirship | conjugal right | coparcenary | demand | divine right | droit | due | entail | faculty | gavelkind | heirloom | heirship | hereditament | heritable | heritage | heritance | inalienable right | incorporeal hereditament | inheritance | interest | law of succession | legacy | line of succession | mode of succession | natural right | patrimony | perquisite | postremogeniture | power | prerogative | prescription | presumptive right | pretense | pretension | primogeniture | privilege | proper claim | property right | reversion | right | succession | title | ultimogeniture | vested interest | vested right

See Also | heritage | heritage | inheritance | inheritance

Birthright In Webster's Dictionary

\Birth"right`\, n. Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born. Lest there be any . . . profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. --Heb. xii. 16.

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