Legacy vs. Inheritance
Legacynoun
(legal) Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.
Inheritancenoun
The passing of title to an estate upon death.
Legacynoun
Something inherited from a predecessor or the past; a heritage.
‘John Muir left as his legacy an enduring spirit of respect for the environment.’;
Inheritancenoun
(countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
Legacynoun
(university and society admissions) The descendant of an alumnus.
‘Because she was a legacy, her mother's sorority rushed her.’;
Inheritancenoun
(biology) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
Legacyadjective
Left over from the past; no longer current.
Inheritancenoun
In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.
Legacynoun
A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.
Inheritancenoun
The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.
Legacynoun
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.’;
Inheritancenoun
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.’;
Legacynoun
(law) a gift of personal property by will
Inheritancenoun
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.’;
Legacynoun
an amount of money or property left to someone in a will
‘my grandmother died and unexpectedly left me a small legacy’;
Inheritancenoun
Possession; ownership; acquisition.
‘To you th' inheritance belongs by rightOf brother's praise; to you eke 'longs his love.’;
Legacynoun
something left or handed down by a predecessor
‘the legacy of centuries of neglect’;
Inheritancenoun
Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.
Legacynoun
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’;
Inheritancenoun
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.’;
Legacyadjective
denoting or relating to software or hardware that has been superseded but is difficult to replace because of its wide use.
Inheritancenoun
hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
Inheritancenoun
that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
Inheritancenoun
(genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
Inheritancenoun
any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors;
‘my only inheritance was my mother's blessing’; ‘the world's heritage of knowledge’;
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.
