Succession vs. Inheritance
Successionnoun
An act of following in sequence.
Successionnoun
A sequence of things in order.
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A passing of royal powers.
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A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
Successionnoun
A race or series of descendants.
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(agriculture) Rotation, as of crops.
Successionnoun
A right to take possession.
Successionnoun
(historical) In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.
Successionnoun
The person who succeeds to rank or office; a successor or heir.
Successionnoun
The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters.
Successionnoun
A series of persons or things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology.
Successionnoun
An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent.
Successionnoun
The power or right of succeeding to the station or title of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon the office, rank, position, etc., held ny another; also, the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of succeeding, to a throne.
Successionnoun
The right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order.
Successionnoun
The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir.
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a following of one thing after another in time;
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a group of people or things arranged or following in order;
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the action of following in order;
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(ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established
Successionnoun
acquisition of property by descent or by will
Inheritancenoun
The passing of title to an estate upon death.
Inheritancenoun
(countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
Inheritancenoun
(biology) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
Inheritancenoun
In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.
Inheritancenoun
The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.
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.
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A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction.
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Possession; ownership; acquisition.
Inheritancenoun
Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.
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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.
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
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(genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
Inheritancenoun
any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors;
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.
