Inheritance

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Inheritance (or English inheritance ) stands for:

the transfer of the characteristics of living beings to their offspring, see inheritance (biology)
the passing on of values and properties in object-oriented programming, see inheritance (programming)

Legally:

Succession , occurs with the death of the testator
Succession , in German inheritance law the legal or voluntary succession
Legal succession , regulates who receives the property of a deceased
Real division , also real inheritance right, a division of family property among those entitled to inheritance

See also:

Legacy (disambiguation)

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