Legacy vs. Inheritance — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Legacy and Inheritance
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Legacy
An amount of money or property left to someone in a will
My grandmother died and unexpectedly left me a small legacy
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.
Legacy
An applicant to a particular college or university who is regarded preferentially because a parent or other relative attended the same institution
Being a legacy increased a student's chance of being accepted to a highly selective college by up to 45 per cent
Inheritance
The action of inheriting something
The inheritance of property from a relative.
Legacy
Denoting or relating to software or hardware that has been superseded but is difficult to replace because of its wide use.
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Inheritance
Something inherited or to be inherited
Her inheritance included a large estate.
Legacy
Money or property given to another by will.
Inheritance
Something regarded as a heritage
The cultural inheritance of Rome.
Legacy
Something handed down from an ancestor or a predecessor or from the past
A legacy of religious freedom.
Inheritance
The process of genetic transmission of characteristics from parent or ancestor to offspring.
Legacy
An individual who is either an applicant to an educational institution or a matriculated student and is the child of an alumna or alumnus.
Inheritance
A characteristic so inherited.
Legacy
Retained under an obsolescent or discarded system, chiefly for purposes of reference
Legacy files in the old email system.
Inheritance
The sum of genetically transmitted characteristics.
Legacy
(legal) Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.
Inheritance
The passing of title to an estate upon death.
Legacy
Something inherited from a predecessor or the past.
John Muir left as his legacy an enduring spirit of respect for the environment.
Inheritance
(countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
Legacy
(education) The descendant of an alumnus.
Because she was a legacy, her mother's sorority rushed her.
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.
Legacy
Left over from the past; no longer current.
Inheritance
The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
Legacy
A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.
Inheritance
The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.
Legacy
A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; - obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like.
My legacy and message wherefore I am sent into the world.
He came and told his legacy.
Inheritance
The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.
Legacy
(law) a gift of personal property by will
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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