How To Use Disinherit In A Sentence
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There are many horror stories about an ex-spouse getting the proceeds of a big life insurance policy or the accidental disinheritance of a child because the owner never changed the beneficiary," Norfolk warns.
How To Protect Your Spouse Financially After You're Gone
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Hart's good - bad man was always an outsider, always one of the disinherited.
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The way many estate plans are currently worded could cause them to backfire, either by triggering unnecessary state estate taxes or even accidentally disinheriting a surviving spouse.
Does Your Trust Need a Tune-Up?
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About to be disinherited from the family fortune, Stephen returns to home after a long estrangement and it happens to be the night his father is shot to death.
The Inheritance by Simon Tolkien: Book summary
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She may or may not have been instrumental in the disinheritance.
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Lionel's inheritance also disappears; after separation, hardship, estrangement, and disinheritance, the Tarrants are happily reconciled, but live separately in London.
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I left off, though, when I became aware that I was being watched by a belted constable with a damned disinheriting moustache, but I've calculated since that I could have cleared ten thousand dollars a year on the streets of Baltimore, easy, which is two thousand quid, sufficient to buy you a lieutenancy in the Guards in those days - and from the look of some of them, I'd not be surprised.
THE NUMBERS
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She had barely escaped disinheritance but that didn't stop her from confronting her father or taunting him about her lifestyle.
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For those masters who were also biological fathers to their slaves, the tacit disinheritance had double significance.
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The trust of the disinherited was further shattered and disowned by the disingenuous attitude of the state.
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Oh, Adele left me - as I always half expected she would - after Rochester disinherited me.
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Wolfgang Wagner, who disinherited his brother's children and his own son to leave Bayreuth in the hands of two rival daughters, Eva and Katharina, was the last grandchild to be dandled on Cosima's meddlesome knee.
Keeper Of the Shrine
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His indignant parents promptly disinherited him, and Joly went to work as a secretary to put him through medical school.
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The old man found out and stopped the marriage by threatening to disinherit his son.
THE WITCH TREE SYMBOL
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Inasmuch as the disinherison or omission by parents of their children has generally no good reason, those children who complain that they have been wrongfully disinherited or passed over have been allowed to bring an action impeaching the will as unduteous, under the pretext that the testator was of unsound mind at the time of its execution.
The Institutes of Justinian
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But the racially excluded, the economically disinherited, and the psychologically wounded certainly do.
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And must the disinherited knight, whose blood has been warmed in the company of the tender and beautiful Rebecca, sit down contented for life by the side of such a frigid piece of propriety as that icy, faultless, prim, niminy-piminy Rowena?
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The novel does not, however, present material well-being as synonymous with cultural disinheritance.
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In a Parliament of May 18, 1584, such declinature of royal jurisdiction was, by "The Black Acts," made treason: Episcopacy was established; the heirs of Gowrie were disinherited; Angus, Mar, and other rebels were forfeited.
A Short History of Scotland
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As for his ever having been disinherited, that is a newspaper story, pure and simple.
The Four Pools Mystery
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He turned to go without a word and his father said quietly to his back, `Frederick, I don't want to disinherit you in favour of Charles.
SEA MUSIC
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Probably, thought Anastasia uncomfortably, she would disinherit her granddaughter if she knew what Daphne was up to.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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The old man found out and stopped the marriage by threatening to disinherit his son.
THE WITCH TREE SYMBOL
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He turned to go without a word and his father said quietly to his back, `Frederick, I don't want to disinherit you in favour of Charles.
SEA MUSIC
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When she'd decided to marry Arial's father her parents had disinherited her, angry that she hadn't agreed to marry the more suitable man they were pushing her towards.
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Those whom you have so well called the disinherited of the world, are certainly the object of our solicitude.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete
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-- I'll disown you, I'll disinherit you, I'll unget you! and damn me! if ever I call you Jack again!
The Rivals A Comedy
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Many minority groups throughout history have been disinherited by the majority.
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Soon he's disinherited, cast out of his ancestral home and off to live in seclusion in a Paris warehouse.
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It was high time; for, while the Disinherited Knight was pressing upon the Templar, Front-de-Boeuf had got nigh to him with his uplifted sword; but ere the blow could descend, the Sable Knight dealt a stroke on his head, which, glancing from the polished helmet, lighted with violence scarcely abated on the chamfron of the steed, and Front-de-Boeuf rolled on the ground, both horse and man equally stunned by the fury of the blow.
Ivanhoe. A Romance
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Berating Jews with their own history, disinheriting them of pity, as though pity is negotiable or has a sell-by date, is the latest species of Holocaust denial, infinitely more subtle than the David Irving version with its clunking body counts and quibbles over gas-chamber capability and chimney sizes.
Howard Jacobson speaks his mind
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When she learns of the secret engagement, she disinherits Edward, making Robert the eldest son.
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After the incident his father disinherited him.
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She swept with her tongue the whole three hundred million Indians into one vile horde and de-sexed, disinherited, declassed, and damned the lot of us.
The Lion of Petra
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The letter said if I didn't shape up, he would not only stop supporting me, he'd disinherit me.
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
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A man could disinherit either of his children by declaring his intentions in his will, but only for grave reasons, such as grievously injuring his person or character or feelings, or attempting his life.
The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.
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Families routinely shun other family members, whether through disinheritance and outright withdrawal of any contact or support, or the deafening "silent treatment" that some spouses and parents engage in as a form of punishment for real or perceived offenses.
Janice Harper: A Reason (and Season) to Stop Shunning
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This argument is misleading and cannot justify selectively disinheriting women.
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Do you disinherit your kids or do you embrace your kids?
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In one of his books, he writes, "For the other 95 percent of the world's population, conversion to Jesus Christ often means disowning, disinheritance, expulsion, arrest, and even death.
Walid Zafar: Ergun Caner, Ex-Muslim Evangelical Leader, Exposed As Fake
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Probably, thought Anastasia uncomfortably, she would disinherit her granddaughter if she knew what Daphne was up to.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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As a consequence, Nicholas became disinherited by his mother's family.
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The old man found out and stopped the marriage by threatening to disinherit his son.
THE WITCH TREE SYMBOL
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The letter said if I didn't shape up, he would not only stop supporting me, he'd disinherit me.
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
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It was, you know, publicized that I was "disinherited," that I was shocked at what I received.
CNN Transcript Mar 14, 2008
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You actually wanted my uncle to disinherit you?
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For whatsoe'er we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate, which in success often disinherits, for spurious causes, noblest merits.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 5, 1890
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It is one of those fables that the disinherited folk have at all times invented to solace themselves for their disinherison.
Old French Romances
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And the word is that four months before Aaron Spelling died, he kind of disinherited her.
CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2006
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In the early freedom of the law, Romans might disinherit without cause; later, this liberty was restricted to disherison for just cause, and a legitima, or statutory provision, was prescribed.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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Not surprisingly, Mary would have trouble recruiting aristocratic staff after her disinheritance in 1536.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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It was then that the princess came in, with her gown all wet from the river, and she knew everything: the acclamation for the duke, the disinheriting of the family.
The Red Queen
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There were two of her ladies with her, and the whole group just looked at me, the women curiously, and Lakshmibai with the same damned disinheriting stare she'd used in the dungeon.
Fiancée
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This was especially the case once Henry resolved his doubts about a female succession by instituting divorce proceedings against Catherine of Aragon in 1527 with the aim of disinheriting Mary.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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What if you are disinherited and then cast aside?
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The trust of the disinherited was further shattered and disowned by the disingenuous attitude of the state.
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Probably, thought Anastasia uncomfortably, she would disinherit her granddaughter if she knew what Daphne was up to.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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Under his reign his atempts to withdraw back to only francistown and maun were blocked by the congress but his seclusionist efforts weren't suported by the general populace and in the 2003 elections he was replaced by Ian Mmusi (Peter Mmusi's disinherited son) of the Botswana National Front that advecated expansionist polices.
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The old man found out and stopped the marriage by threatening to disinherit his son.
THE WITCH TREE SYMBOL
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But Mell had said the Marquise had married a common man, and that she was disinherited for it.
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Our minds are constantly troubled by the possibility of discovery, blackmail, disinheritance and murder.
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Go forth to discrown king and captain and disinherit the creed;
0 764. The Reed by Henry Bernard Carpenter. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900
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After you're married, it takes more lawyering to disinherit a spouse.
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Her father said he'd disinherit her if she married Stephen.
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In order to marry football hero Tom Harper, Kate endures being disinherited and estranged from her family.
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He turned to go without a word and his father said quietly to his back, `Frederick, I don't want to disinherit you in favour of Charles.
SEA MUSIC
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What caused the disinheritance is that all incoming freshmen and transfer students are given a copy of a book to read, and no other, to create their "common experience.
Brooklyn College Alum Cuts School Out Of Will Over Reading Assignment
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And this disinherison was first allowed by the lex Iunia Vallaea, which explains the form which is to be used, and which resembles that employed in disinheriting family heirs born after the making of a will.
The Institutes of Justinian
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Indeed, the final volume centers on Orlando's search for a lost will and his legal challenge to a will that has disinherited his family.
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He knowing his father to be a resolute man, and punctual to his word, thought it impossible ever to reconcile him to the match, at which the young man began to consider what course to take, that he might not incur his fatherÕs displeasure, and by that means be disinherited from a good and extensive estate that he was sole heir to.
The Cruel Husband; or, Dvonshire Tragedy
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ONE of the first lessons we learned at Hull-House was that private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
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The treaty of Troyes forced Charles VI of France to disinherit his son, the dauphin, in favour of the English kings.
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By making a will containing such provisions as you see fit and ensuring your estate consists of heritable property only, you can disinherit your children.
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For whatsoe'er we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate, which in success often disinherits, for spurious causes, noblest merits.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 5, 1890
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There are many exceptions to the rule, but a fear of affluenza has prompted some wealthy parents to disinherit their children for magnanimous reasons.
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It was high time; for, while the Disinherited Knight was pressing upon the Templar, Front-de-Boeuf had got nigh to him with his uplifted sword; but ere the blow could descend, the Sable Knight dealt a stroke on his head, which, glancing from the polished helmet, lighted with violence scarcely abated on the chamfron [84-16] of the steed, and
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
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Little wonder that your parents disowned you and that now your current beef with life is that you were disinherited from a very sizable and impressive Treuter family estate.
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In these two places, descendants are protected against disinheritance by what experts call indefeasible shares.
OUTCAST
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Probably, thought Anastasia uncomfortably, she would disinherit her granddaughter if she knew what Daphne was up to.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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It wouldn't matter if she was disinherited for failing to make her husband-to-be sign the papers or for marrying without her family's blessing.
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I left off, though, when I became aware that I was being watched by a belted constable with a damned disinheriting moustache, but I've calculated since that I could have cleared ten thousand dollars a year on the streets of Baltimore, easy, which is two thousand quid, sufficient to buy you a lieutenancy in the Guards in those days - and from the look of some of them, I'd not be surprised.
THE NUMBERS
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His daughter was disinherited, and what little was left of Lovelace's possessions passed to his godsons.
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Many minority groups throughout history have been disinherited by the majority.
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Mr. Griffith Donne's principal trial was the existence of an elderly maiden aunt, who did not approve of him, and was in the habit of expressing her disapproval in lengthy epistolary correspondence, invariably tending to severe denunciation of his mode of life, and also invariably terminating with the announcement that unless he "desisted" (from what, or in what manner, not specified) she should consider it her bounden duty to disinherit him forthwith.
Vagabondia 1884
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Freeland money was to be found wherever want had to be relieved and the disinherited and wretched to be aided against exploitage.
Freeland A Social Anticipation
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The letter said if I didn't shape up, he would not only stop supporting me, he'd disinherit me.
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
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Louis the Pious decided to disinherit Pippin's sons, though the older, also called Pippin, was by now fifteen.
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He turned to go without a word and his father said quietly to his back, `Frederick, I don't want to disinherit you in favour of Charles.
SEA MUSIC
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If he survived long enough for the projected Parliamentary session in September 1553 — called for the specific purpose of ratifying the new succession order — then there would be little that Mary could do to forestall her own disinheritance. 34 In the 1530s Mary had publicly resisted her own disinheritance to little avail.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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But he knew the kid was a reprobate, and his will says nothing about disinheriting him for bad behavior.
Why Trial Lawyers Say It Better
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After the incident his father disinherited him.
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Planners say that same inadvertent disinheritance could hit charitable beneficiaries too.
Estate-Tax Lapse Could Hurt Charity
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‘The day you marry my daughter,’ Clarence Mackay allegedly told Berlin, ‘I'll disinherit her.’
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We are the descendants of a tradition bent on distrusting government in whatever it initiates, and we are disinheriting ourselves with expectations that the rule of law will always properly separate equality from equity, will always value conscience as highly as pious obedience, and with wisdom and proletarian virtue as its strengths, will never advance the majority at the expense of the minority.
Americans Don't Seem To Mind "Surveillance Society"
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His daughter was disinherited, and what little was left of Lovelace's possessions passed to his godsons.
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Many minority groups throughout history have been disinherited by the majority.
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His father, a scrivener, had rebelled against his father's Catholicism to become an Anglican (and been disinherited for his apostasy).
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Because he was poor, she was disinherited and after he died, she ended up here.
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When he found me not interested in the idea of his being my dad, he actually disinherited me.
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They claim to speak for 4.8 million "disinherited" Brazilians, rural and urban alike.
A Plot Of Their Own
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The letter said if I didn't shape up, he would not only stop supporting me, he'd disinherit me.
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
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Then, in a final twist of fate, when he dies he bequeaths his fortune to the church, disinheriting his children and abandoning his family to poverty.
A Quick Review « Tales from the Reading Room
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The new Mrs. Kidder filed a motion for summary judgment, and the matter eventually ended up in federal district court in Baton Rouge, which this year awarded the approximately $250,000 in the account to her, disinheriting the children.
Family Feuds: The Battles Over Retirement Accounts
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You left me for the son of an Earl who ended up being disinherited and penniless and then I'll become a marquis… heir to a very wealthy dukedom.
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It was necessary, on this account, that Lord Sinclair should disinherit his eldest son; and "as it would," says Sir Walter Scott, "have been highly impolitic to have alleged his forfeiture for treason as a cause of the deed, the slaughter of the Schaws was given as a reason for his exheredation.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
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Second of all, it would be the death nail of your political future and third of all, I will disinherit you.
