For instance, beginning in the eighth century, female heirs inherited real estate if they had no brothers.

After the death of his father in 1828, Hinde inherited real estate in Kentucky.

She and her siblings all inherited real estate, giving them independent means, Neither she nor her siblings would marry.

Porter was born in Winnetka, Ill., in 1907; his father was a hobby architect and marine enthusiast with inherited real estate in Chicago's Loop, his mother a freethinker who espoused progressive causes.

Stuyvesant and his sister, Anne, descendants of Gov. Peter Stuyvesant and rich with inherited real estate, had been driven by commerce from their house at 3 East 57th Street, where they lived together; both were unmarried.