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Inheritance vs Appendant - What's the difference?

inheritance | appendant |

As nouns the difference between inheritance and appendant

is that inheritance is the passing of title to an estate upon death while appendant is anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.

As an adjective appendant is

attached as an appendage.

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

    * (EtymOnLine)

    appendant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • attached as an appendage
  • annexed; concomitant
    • a seal appendant to a paper
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity.
  • (legal) Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house.
    • (Wharton)
    (Coke)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.
  • (legal) An inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.
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