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Definition of Inheritance

Inheritance The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities. That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a possession which passes by descent. A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction. Possession; ownership; acquisition. Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation. A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law. Related Definitions: Acquisition, Act, An, Ancestor, And, Animal, Another, As, Be, Benefaction, Blessing, By, Continuing, Course, Derived, Descent, Estate, From, Generation, Gift, Have, He, Heir, Heritage, His, Has, In, Inheritance, Inherited, Inheriting, Is, Law, Man, May, Mental, Of, One, Or, Other, Ownership, Permanent, Perpetual, Person, Physical, Plant, Possession, Purchase, Qualities, Received, Reception, Right, State, That, The, To, Transmission, Transmit, Valuable, Which, Without

Inheritance Quotations Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Henry David Thoreau I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul. Mohandas Gandhi Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. William Hazlitt Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. Karl Kraus Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. Toni Morrison

Inheritance Translations inheritance in Danish is arv inheritance in Dutch is erfdeel, boedel, erfenis, erfstuk inheritance in German is Erbe, Erbschaft inheritance in Latin is hereditas inheritance in Norwegian is arv inheritance in Swedish is arv

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