Birthright vs. Inheritance — What's the Difference?

Birthright is the concept of things being due to a person upon or by fact of their birth, or due to the order of their birth. These may include rights of citizenship based on the place where the person was born or the citizenship of their parents, and inheritance rights to property owned by parents or others.

Inheritance is the practice of passing on private property, titles, debts, entitlements, privileges, rights, and obligations upon the death of an individual. The rules of inheritance differ among societies and have changed over time.

A right, possession, or privilege that is one's due by birth.

The action of inheriting something

A special privilege accorded a firstborn.

Something inherited or to be inherited

Something owed since birth, due to inheritance.

Something regarded as a heritage

Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born.

The process of genetic transmission of characteristics from parent or ancestor to offspring.

A right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth;

A characteristic so inherited.

An inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture)

The sum of genetically transmitted characteristics.

Personal characteristics that are inherited at birth

The passing of title to an estate upon death.

(countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.

The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited

The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.

The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.

The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.

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.

A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction.

Possession; ownership; acquisition.

Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.

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.

Hereditary succession to a title or an office or property

That which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner

(genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents

Any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors;