inheritance
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
inheritance/ɪnˈherɪtəns/
▶noun
- 1 a thing that is inherited.
- 2 the action of inheriting.
'inheritance' also found in these Oxford entries:
concordance
- coparcener
- cytogenetics
- death duty
- death tax
- descend
- descent
- devolve
- disinherit
- dysgenic
- entail
- estate duty
- expectation
- gavelkind
- hereditament
- hereditary
- heredity
- heritage
- IHT
- inheritance tax
- Lamarckism
- landed
- law of succession
- ouster
- partible
- primogeniture
- purchase
- surrogate
- udal
