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• n  hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
• n  that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
• n  (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
• n  any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors
  my only inheritance was my mother's blessing

• Not only do Kennedy courtiers lay claim to Ted's seat in Massachusetts, they recently declared Hillary Clinton's Senate chair in New York to be part of the Kennedy inheritance.
• Others are lowbrow, like ABC's The Will (relatives battle for an inheritance), FOX's Married by America (viewers vote to help pair up a bride and groom) and NBC's Around the .
• With an inheritance, Trippe began a business with Long Island Airways in New York, a taxi service for the well-heeled.

• heritage
• hereditary pattern

News & Articles

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• UK police arrest brother in Alps killing
  LONDON (AP) — The brother of a British-Iraqi man shot to death with three other people last year in a remote area of the French Alps was arrested Monday after investigators gathered evidence that the siblings were fighting over their father's inheritance.
  June 24, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Inheritance was no gift for schoolteacher
  Financial mistakes tied to her mother's house led to bankruptcy, but the ordeal has taught Jane Osick valuable lessons. The trouble started with the inheritance.        
  June 22, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
• Son and Heir? In Britain, Daughters Cry No Fair
  Male-only inheritance has Britain looking at whether its aristocracy is an essential part of its identity, a quaint vestige of the past or a bit of both.
  June 22, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Julia Gillard in BusinessWeek
  Gillard, who draws support from the Labor Party's left wing faction, signaled the government won't scrap the tax, saying "Australians are entitled to a fairer share of our inheritance, the mineral wealth that lies in our grounds."
• Barack Obama in San Francisco Chronicle
  The inheritance of our young century demands a new era of American leadership,Obama said. "We must recognize that America's strength comes not just from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from our enduring values. And...
• Gordon Brown in NewsMax.com
  Winston Churchill, Brown said, "described the joint inheritance of Britain and America as not just a shared history but a shared belief in the great principles of freedom, and the rights of Man - of what Barack Obama described in his election...