INHERITANCE

Inheritance

Inheritance is the practice of passing on property, titles, debts, rights and obligations upon the death of an individual. It has long played an important role in human societies. The rules of inheritance differ between societies and have changed over time.

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inheritance

Noun

  1. The passing of title to an estate upon death.
  2. That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
  3. (biology) The hereditary passing of biological attributes from ancestors to their offspring.
  4. In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.


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