Sentence examples for disinherit from inspiring English sources

This "forced heirship" makes it impossible to disinherit feckless children (though several countries exclude bequests to "unworthy" children, who have for example murdered a parent or two).

So far, however, King Bhumibol seems to have made up his mind that Prince Vajiralongkorn will succeed him.Paul Handley, the king's unofficial biographer, whose book is banned in Thailand, thinks there is a tiny possibility that King Bhumibol could decide on his deathbed to disinherit Prince Vajiralongkorn.

In his desire to smash feudalism, Louis de Saint-Just urged that "nobody should be allowed to disinherit, or to make a will".

In republican Rome a testator had the power to disinherit a spouse and children, but if he wished to do this he had to say so expressly in the will.

A testator's freedom to disinherit a surviving spouse, children, or other heirs has been more extensive in ancient Roman and modern Anglo-American law than in the modern civil-law countries, but it has always had limits.

In the United States a deceased may generally not disinherit his spouse but may disinherit his children, even if this leaves them without any means of support.

There was the strict Japanese traditionalist, the eldest son of a 300-year-old sake-brewing family in Nagoya who disinherited his own eldest son, Hideo Morita, for marrying without his consent.

IN GENERAL only eccentric millionaires, intent on disinheriting their children, subscribe to the idea that being given large wads of money is bad for you.

A very rich great-grandmother disinherited her daughter for marrying the "wrong" man.

But at Cannes euro-zone leaders made plain that family members could be forsaken, even disinherited.

Later, in April 1433, the capricious Joan disinherited Louis, only to readopt him in June.