Consider, for example, the control of a person's public image after the person has died, the so-called descendible (or post-mortem) right of publicity.

The three hallmarks of the fee simple estate are that it is alienable, devisable and descendible.

In response to that court ruling, California passed legislation that created descendible rights of publicity that last 70 years after death, retroactively for any person deceased after January 1, 1938.

With a cry, Leonidas dismounted his post atop the Wall and advanced down the stone slope, which had been erected deliberately with a descendible incline, into the open before the Spartans, Mycenaeans and Phliasians.

His father was Jewish descendable German, and his mother (Finlay) was from Scotland.

Armorial bearings are incorporeal and impartible hereditaments, inalienable, and descendable according to the law of arms.

The rights of men in society, are neither devisable or transferable, nor annihilable, but are descendable only, and it is not in the power of any generation to intercept finally, and cut off the descent.