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Bequests vs Inheritance - What's the difference?

bequests | inheritance |

As nouns the difference between bequests and inheritance

is that bequests is while inheritance is the passing of title to an estate upon death.

bequests

English

Noun

(head)

    • inheritance

    English

    (wikipedia 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.

    • Related terms

    * inherit * inheritable * inheritor * preheritance

    References

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