Legal Definition and Related Resources of Inheritance

real property that descended to the heir upon the ancestor ‘s death intestate . The term is also used in old books as synonymous with hereditaments. In popular language, the term is used to denote all property obtained by devise or descent although the term strictly means that which descends to the heir upon the intestacy of the ancestor. Rivers v Rivers, (Tex.Ci- v.App.) 346 S. W.2d376.

A perpetuity in lands to a man and his heirs; the right to succeed to the estate of a person who dies intestate. Dig. 50. 16. 24. The term is applied to lands. The property which is inherited is called an inheritance. The term “inheritance” includes not only lands and tenements which have been acquired by descent, but every fee simple or fee tail which a person has acquired by purchase may be said to be an inheritance, because the purchaser’s heirs may inherit it. Co. Litt. § 9. See “Estate.” In Civil Law. The succession to all the rights of the deceased. It is of two kinds: That which arises by testament when the testator gives his succession to a particular person; and that which arises by operation of law, which is called “succession ab intestat.” Heinec. Lee. Elem. §§ 484, 485.

noun

• appanage
• benefaction
• bequest
• devise
• dispensation
• endowment
• gift
• hereditas
• heritage
• inherited property
• legacy
• presentation
• property obtained bv descent
• property obtained by devise
• provision
• seisin
• succession of property
• Associated Concepts: coparcenary
• curtesy
• descent
• distribution
• dower
• inheritance estate
• inheritance tax
• intestate succession
• patrimony
• wills foreign phrases: Haereditas
• alia corporalis
• alia incorporalis; corporalis est
• quae tangipotest et videri; incorporalis quae tangi non potest nec videri
• An inheritance is either corporeal or incorporeal
• corporeal is that which can be touched and seen; incorporeal
• is that which can neither be touched nor seen
• Feodum simplex quia feodum idem est quod haereditas
• et simplex idem est quod legitimum velpurum; etsic feodum simplex idem est quod haereditas legitima vel haereditas pura
• A feesimple is so called because fee is the same as inheritance
• and simple is the same as lawful or pure; and so feesimple is the same as a lawful inheritance or pure inheritance
• Filius est nomen naturae
• sed haeres nomen juris
• Son is the natural name
• but heir is a name of law
• Haeredum appellatione veniunt haeredes haeredum in infinitum
• Under the name heirs come the heirs of heirs without limit
• Haereditas est successio in universum jus quod defunctus habuerit
• Inheritance is the succession to every right which the deceased had possessed
• Haereditas nihil aliud est
• quam successio in universum jus
• quod defunctus habuerit
• An inheritance is nothing other than the succession to all the rights which the deceased had
• Si quis praegnantem uxorem reliquit
• non videtur sine liberis decessisse
• If a man dies
• leaving his wife pregnant
• he is considered as having died childless
• Major haereditas venit unicuique nostrum a jure et legibus quam aparentibus
• A greater inheritance comes to each one of us from justice and the laws than from our parents

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Further Reading

Austen, Jane. 1991. Pride and Prejudice. New York: Knopf.

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas, David Joulfaian, and Harvey Rosen. 1993. The Carnegie Conjecture: Some Empirical Evidence. Quarterly Journal of Economics 108, no. 2: 413-435.

Kotlikoff, Laurence, and Lawrence Summers. 1981. The Role of Intergenerational Transfers in Aggregate Capital Accumulation. Journal of Political Economy 89, no. 4: 706-732.

Masson, André, and Pierre Pestieau. 1997. Bequest Motives and Models of Inheritance: A Survey of the Literature. In Is Inheritance Legitimate? Ethical and Economic Aspects of Wealth Transfers, ed. Guido Erreygers and Toon Vandevelde. New York: Springer.

Menchik, Paul, and Nancy Jianakoplos. 1997. Black-White Wealth Inequality: Is Inheritance the Reason? Economic Inquiry 35, no. 2: 428-442.

Modigliani, Franco. 1988. Measuring the Contribution of Intergenerational Transfers to Total Wealth: Conceptual Issues and Empirical Findings. In Modelling the Accumulation and Distribution of Wealth, ed. Denis Kessler and André Masson. Oxford: Clarendon.

Oliver, Melvin L., and Thomas M. Shapiro. 1995. Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality. New York: Routledge.

Shapiro, Thomas M. 2004. The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality. New York: Oxford University Press.

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Inheritance in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of inheritance.

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• inheritance in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• inheritance in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

Inheritance Definition (in the Accounting Vocabulary)

The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants offers the following definition of Inheritance in a way that is easy for anybody to understand: As distinguished from a BEQUEST or devise, an inheritance is property acquired through laws of descent and distribution from a person who dies without leaving a will. The value of property inherited id excluded from a taxpayers gross income, but if the property inherited produces income it is included in gross income. A taxpayer’s basis in inherited property is the fair market value at the time of death.

Definition of Inheritance

The practice of passing on property, titles, debts, and obligations upon the death of an individual to designated beneficiaries.

Concept of Inheritance in the context of Real Property

A short definition of Inheritance: In a legal meaning, real property obtained by law rather than by will; generally misused to mean anything which comes from a deceased person.

Concept of Inheritance in the context of Real Property

A short definition of Inheritance: In a legal meaning, real property obtained by law rather than by will; generally misused to mean anything which comes from a deceased person.