The quality or state of being capable of descending or being passed down from one person to another through inheritance.
From descendible + -ity suffix, creating an abstract noun from the adjective form. Rooted in Latin descendere with English legal and genealogical terminology.
This was a crucial word in property law and inheritance disputes—determining the 'descendibility' of an estate meant figuring out whether titles and lands could legally pass to heirs.
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