Sentence examples for inherit purchase from inspiring English sources

All citizens of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory as is enjoyed by white citizens thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property.

An early civil-rights statute, adopted in 1866, said that all citizens "shall have the same right . . . as is enjoyed by white citizens thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property," but this protection was treated as addressing only government action.

An early civil-rights statute, adopted in 1866, said that all citizens "shall have the same right. . . as is enjoyed by white citizens thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property," but this protection was treated as addressing only government action.

this Court recognized long ago that, whatever else they may have encompassed, the badges and incidents of slavery -- its "burdens and disabilities" -- included restraints upon "those fundamental rights which are the essence of civil freedom, namely, the same right... to inherit, purchase, lease, sell and convey property, as is enjoyed by white citizens".

People who inherit or purchase an old home and want to divest themselves of its contents — especially steel kitchen cabinets — often find the forum through Internet searches.

Westhead and Wright (1998) provide a starting point by defining entrepreneurs as those who start, inherit, or purchase a business.

Bass first got into the egg business in 1962 in Bogotá, Colombia, where he used some money he inherited to purchase a 9-acre farm with 500,000 birds for $17,000.

Viewed by many as the playground for millionaires, tourists and millennial hikers laid out in glossy magazines, the famous seaside community is also home to older residents on fixed incomes and lifers who inherited houses purchased years ago — in some cases, generations — back when Malibu was the more affordable alternative to Santa Monica.

The California investigation is aimed at the mortgage business that JPMorgan inherited after its purchase of Washington Mutual, the people said.

In the last year it has raised £27.9 billion ($39.7 billion) by divesting itself of companies it inherited through its purchase of Mannesmann of Germany.

But the Fed held the line, presumably concerned about, among other things, Bank of America's exposure to bad mortgages and other problems inherited in its purchase of Countrywide.