Synonym: hereditary pattern, heritage. Similar words: inherit, inheritor, inhabitant, puritan, heritage, veritable, stance, good samaritan. Meaning: [ɪn'herɪtəns] n. 1. hereditary succession to a title or an office or property 2. that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner 3. (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents 4. any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors.
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(91) The only reason you want custody of Kirsty is so you can get your hands on her inheritance.
(92) In the Emmental region the loca customary laws of inheritance differed markedly from most of their neighbours.
(93) Temperament seems to be the result of three different factors - genetic inheritance, past experience and present environment.
(94) This research aims to find out how families handle these matters concerning inheritance of property in the circumstances of the 1990s.
(95) It implied, first, primogeniture amongst males, i.e. inheritance by the eldest son, if there was one.
(96) Donation and inheritance transactions accounted for a relatively small area of the farmland transferred to disadvantaged people.
(97) In 1981 the Conservative government abolished capital transfer tax and replaced it with inheritance tax.
(98) Dark Inheritance is Elaine Feinstein's first venture into a new genre: the literary thriller.
(99) Assuming genetic influences, the mode of inheritance can be investigated by segregation analysis of pedigree data.
(100) Galton had become convinced that Lamarckism was ineffective because the character of each individual is rigidly determined by inheritance.
(101) This was too wide a loophole for the tax planners: no wonder inheritance tax is called a voluntary tax.
(102) Had your daughter inherited the stocks, her cost basis would move up to the value at the time of the inheritance.
(103) Anonymous accounts could still be held if they related to legal proceedings such as divorce or inheritance.
(104) In so doing, politicians seem intent on marginalising the Beveridge inheritance and reinforcing social divisions.
(105) He grew up oppressed by the sense of belonging to a broken culture, deprived of his inheritance.
(106) Inheritance tax, for example, will continue to be an issue for many expatriates.
(107) Rumour had it that Gaunt had poisoned his sister-in-law in order to gain possession of the whole of the inheritance.
(108) The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation. Bill Clinton
(109) Why would Ian want to claim his inheritance and then give all his money away? It was a riddle to me.
(110) But nowhere was any one principle of inheritance applied exclusively, and nowhere was inheritance the only means of transferring land rights.
(110) Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and create good sentences.
(111) She has no hidden political agenda, but she does challenge the cultural inheritance that would encourage her silence.
(112) Any small inheritance, gift, premium bond prize or money from occasional jobs should not be included.
(113) My inheritance from those years is the belief maintained with some difficulty, that I do have a right to the earth.
(114) Robert, my stepson, is not to be given his grandfather's inheritance until he is thirty.
(115) Financial conditions were at their worst, thanks to the inheritance from the preceding wasteful regime.
(116) Property left to a surviving spouse remains, as before, free of inheritance tax.
(117) Amy had never given up trying to get control of her inheritance.
(118) Also, where there is property located outside the United Kingdom, no inheritance tax will be payable.
(119) And think what good you're doing by helping me fulfil all Uncle's requirements for getting hold of my inheritance.
(120) Land fragmentation, as a result of inheritance laws and social custom, compounds the widespread problem of small farm size.
More similar words: inherit, inheritor, inhabitant, puritan, heritage, veritable, stance, good samaritan, pittance, substance, instance, distance, reluctance, repentance, assistance, resistance, admittance, for instance, acceptance, importance, stand a chance, circumstance, acquaintance, in the distance, happenstance, of importance, pinhead, inherent, inherently, nonviolent resistance.