Inheritance word meaning and definition

[noun] hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
[noun] any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors; "my only inheritance was my mother's blessing"; "the world's heritage of knowledge"
[noun] (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
[noun] that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner

\In*her"it*ance\, n. [Cf. OF. enheritance.] 1. The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities. 2. 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. When the man dies, let the inheritance Descend unto the daughter. --Shak. 3. A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction. To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away. --1 Pet. i. 4. 4. Possession; ownership; acquisition. ``The inheritance of their loves.'' --Shak. To you th' inheritance belongs by right Of brother's praise; to you eke ?longs his love. --Spenser. 5. (Biol.) Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation. 6. (Law) 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. --Blackstone. Note: The word inheritance (used simply) is mostly confined to the title to land and tenements by a descent. --Mozley & W. Men are not proprietors of what they have, merely for themselves; their children have a title to part of it which comes to be wholly theirs when death has put an end to their parents' use of it; and this we call inheritance. --Locke.

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