Inheritance (disambiguation)
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Inheritance is the practice of passing on property and debts upon the death of an individual.
Inheritance or Inheritor may also refer to:
In literature:
- Inheritance (novel), a novel by Steven Savile about the Von Carstein family
- Inheritance Trilogy, a fantasy trilogy in the making by Christopher Paolini
- Inheritor (novel), a 1996 science fiction novel in the Foreigner Universe of C. J. Cherryh
In television:
- "Inheritance" (TNG episode), an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Inheritance (TV Drama), a 1967 ITV drama
In other fields:
- Biological inheritance, the process by which an offspring cell or organism acquires characteristics of its parent cell or organism
- Inheritance (computer science), a way to form new classes in object-oriented programming using classes that have already been defined
- Inheritance (genetic algorithm), the ability of modelled objects to propagate their problem solving genes to the next generation