Inheritance vs. Patrimony — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Inheritance and Patrimony
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Inheritance
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.
Patrimony
An inheritance from a father or paternal ancestor.
Inheritance
The action of inheriting something
The inheritance of property from a relative.
Patrimony
An inheritance or legacy; heritage.
Inheritance
Something inherited or to be inherited
Her inheritance included a large estate.
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Patrimony
An endowment or estate belonging to an institution, especially a church.
Inheritance
Something regarded as a heritage
The cultural inheritance of Rome.
Patrimony
A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any male ancestor.
Inheritance
The process of genetic transmission of characteristics from parent or ancestor to offspring.
Patrimony
Formerly, a church estate or endowment.
Inheritance
A characteristic so inherited.
Patrimony
A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor.
Inheritance
The sum of genetically transmitted characteristics.
Patrimony
Formerly, a church estate or endowment.
Inheritance
The passing of title to an estate upon death.
Patrimony
A church endowment
Inheritance
(countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
Patrimony
An inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture)
Inheritance
The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited
The Indo-European languages share various similarities as a result of their inheritance from a common ancestor.
Inheritance
The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
Inheritance
The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.
Inheritance
The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.
Inheritance
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.
When the man dies, let the inheritanceDescend unto the daughter.
Inheritance
A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction.
To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away.
Inheritance
Possession; ownership; acquisition.
To you th' inheritance belongs by rightOf brother's praise; to you eke 'longs his love.
Inheritance
Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.
Inheritance
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.
Men are not proprietors of what they have, merely for themselves; their children have a title to part of it which comes to be wholly theirs when death has put an end to their parents' use of it; and this we call inheritance.
Inheritance
Hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
Inheritance
That which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
Inheritance
(genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
Inheritance
Any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors;
My only inheritance was my mother's blessing
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