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Bequeathed vs Inheritance - What's the difference?

bequeathed | inheritance |

As a verb bequeathed

is past tense of bequeath.

As a noun inheritance is

the passing of title to an estate upon death.

bequeathed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (bequeath)

  • bequeath

    English

    Verb

  • (legal) To give or leave by will; to give by testament.
  • To hand down; to transmit.
  • To give; to offer; to commit.
  • Usage notes

    * (give or leave by will) The verb is usually used of personal property; for real property, the term devise is preferred.

    inheritance

    Alternative forms

    * enheritance (obsolete) * enheritaunce (obsolete) * inheritaunce (obsolete)

    Noun

  • The passing of title to an estate upon death.
  • (lb) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
  • (lb) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
  • In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.
  • References

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