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inherited property, property that passes to an heir
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  • Ierfe

    hereditas,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 43, 47.
  • Ðæt ierfe ðæt gé æfter hiégiað

    hereditas ad quam festinatur,

      Past. 331, 24.
  • Üre worldcunde fædras wilniað ðæt wé hira irfes (ierfes, v. l.) wierðe sién, 255, 2, Yrfes lyre

    patrimonii iacturam,

      An. Ox. 3151.
  • Gif. . . gesibbra ærfeweard forþ cymeð . . . ðanne ann ic ðǽm ofer mínne dæg alles mínes erfes tó brúcanne swá him liófust sió,

      Cht. Th. 483, 20.
  • Ürum cildum wé tiochiað úrne eard and úrne éðel and úre ierfe eall ætsomne tó te forlǽtanne

    pueris tota simul patrímonia heredibus reservamus,

      Past. 391, 28.
property
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  • Willa ic gesellan of ðém ærfe ðe mé God forget . . . LX ambra maltes . . . ,

      C. D. i. 299, 15.
  • Ðá ðe æfter óderra monna ierfe flítað and hié reáfigeað

    qui aliena rapere contendunt,

      Past. 177, 6.
  • Sculon hié niédenga gadrian óðer ierfe on ðæs wriexle ðe hié ǽr for mildheortnesse sealdon

    violenter exquirunt, quae misericorditer largiuntur,

      341, 18.
  • Hé wolde his irfe (ierfe, v. l.) geteóðian (cf. cunctorum quae dederis mihi decimas offeram tibi, Gen. 28, 22), 101, 17. II a. on éce irfe

    in perpetuity

    :-- Mon ágefe ðæt lond innhígun on ǽce ærfe,
      C. D. i. 316, 17, 26.
cattle, (live-) stock, v. ge-irfian. [The passages given in Dict. under yrfe may be taken here]
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  • Be yrfes ætfenge. Sé þe yrfe befó

    de illis qui pecus intertiant. Si quis pecus aliquod interciet,

      Ll. Th. i. 204, 9.
  • Wæs þæt lond ierfælæás . . . And ic ðá sælf þæt ierfæ tó gestríndæ þæt ðǽr mon siððan bí wæs . . . Ðonnæ is þǽr nú irfæs nigon ealð hríðru . . . and fíftig wæþera

    terra omni pecunia caruit. Tune ego ipse peccuniam meam in ea reparare studui, unde interim pauperes vixerunt . . . Modo habetur ibi pecunia IX veteres boves . . . et L arietes,

      Cht. Th. 162, 27-163, 5.
  • Ic sello . . . þás lond mid cwice erfe . . . Feó sió néste hond tó þém londe and tó þém erfe,

      480, 29-481, 23.
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[v. N. E. D. erf.]
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