Definition of inheritance
- n. - The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of
an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.
- n. - 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.
- n. - A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp.
one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction.
- n. - Possession; ownership; acquisition.
- n. - Transmission and reception by animal or plant
generation.
- n. - 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.