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inheritance

An inheritance is something that is passed down to others upon the death of a person.

inheritance

hereditary succession to a title or an office or property (= heritage) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors my only inheritance was my mother's blessing the world's heritage of knowledge (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner

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Simple sentences

She claims the inheritance.
He pissed away his inheritance on booze and loose women.
My father left me a large inheritance.
Tom only found out after his mother's death that she had gambled away his inheritance.
Tom squandered his entire inheritance.
When people said that Tom had married Mary only because her uncle had left her a fortune, he answered that he would have done so regardless of who had left her the inheritance.
Who was the lucky who ended up with the inheritance?
Tom claimed the inheritance.
Tom has no inheritance.

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There's no inheritance if that's what you're thinking.
Ah! So it is about the inheritance!
Must I sacrifice my life because of this inheritance?
As far as I know, your woman is of age, and she may do with her inheritance as she pleases!
I studied the Mendelian Law of Inheritance. and their experiments with sweet peas.
You robbed me of my inheritance.
The truth is, I remembered that my father was an emperor of China. and my mother was an Indian queen. and I went out and claimed my inheritance.
You can take your inheritance and go away.
Is this a trick to deprive me of my inheritance?
You have no inheritance, for, as you know, my daughter had a child, and it was you who, for your own gain, suppressed the only proofs of his birth and parentage.
Every lunchtime I went to see how my inheritance was proceeding.
Soon the only obstacle between me and my inheritance would be the Duke himself.
It is a family inheritance.
It's part of your inheritance from your mother. and your grandmother. and her mother's mother's mother.
And I have the knack of it, as you have yours for your trade. by inheritance.
Unless you're expecting an inheritance.
The inheritance is down the drain!
It's about you, Sir Henry, your inheritance and Baskerville Hall.
I had to produce an imaginary inheritance to smoke this guy out.
He told me that he'd used up a small inheritance.
Morris would not want to be the cause of your losing your natural inheritance.
No man who really loves a woman could ever permit her to give up a great inheritance just for him.
Item - He wills that all such manors, lands and rents. which were descended unto him by way of inheritance, shall remain unto his heirs. namely, Eleanor, his wife, and Edmond, his lawful son.
How we couldn't live like this if you hadn't given up most of your share of the inheritance.
Just let him continue being anxious for a while. Now he should be able to see that we are teasing Lee Jae Sin. The Royal Committee, in accordance with Article 14 Section 2 of the Royal Family Act, hereby selects Princess Lee Jae Sin for inheritance.
As soon as his brother was buried, Uncle Jeff. proceeded to squander the inheritance.
I'm going up there in order to wait for my inheritance.
I came up here in order to wait for my uncle's inheritance.
You were to marry Irene and her inheritance, and we'd split it.
For in the book of Numbers it is writ, when the son dies, let the inheritance descend unto the daughter.
He had to be married in order to get his inheritance.
You will sign half the inheritance to me by deed of gift.
Do you think I don't know how you robbed Madeleine of half her inheritance?
The money was an inheritance and belonged to a daughter who was coming of age this month.
These deductions represent, income taxes, state taxes, inheritance taxes, death taxes and living taxes.
Income tax laws, inheritance taxes and sales taxes.

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Family and kinship contracts, which govern marriage, adoption, cohabitation, inheritance, etc., form the basic unit of human society.
Similarly the children of rich parents may inherit wealth, but this is social, not genetic inheritance.
The inheritance of some characteristics, including eye color, is simple.
First the inheritance.
The second inheritance was a flexible, deregulated economy with fairly low marginal tax rates, a legacy of the Reagan-Bush era.
The third inheritance was low inflation.
These intuitions reflect the outcome of millions of years in which our ancestors have lived as social mammals, and are part of our common inheritance.
Migrant workers may send money home for a variety of reasons: to maintain good family relations, to ensure an inheritance, or to re-pay a loan from elders.
Establishing and upholding equal property and inheritance rights can increase women's access to credit and other productive resources, and creating greater awareness of legal rights in general will help reduce discrimination.
In the US, for example, sustained political determination would help to close massive loopholes in estate planning and inheritance, as well as in household and corporate taxation, that disproportionately benefit the wealthy.
There are others, including the question of inheritance taxes, which have long been regarded as a necessary component of a free society.
He has remained dour and almost silent, visibly chafing with impatience to come into his inheritance, but offering no hint of what difference he would make when he does.
Less affluent individuals are also more threatened by longevity than those for whom living longer mainly means leaving a smaller inheritance to their children.
So, in the financial arena, as elsewhere, there is light and shade in the Thatcher inheritance.
Constrained from spending on the wedding, he would compensate her differently - perhaps with a larger inheritance.
Ordinary North Koreans, too, evidently seem to view this succession differently from that of Kim Jong-il's inheritance of power from his father, Kim Il-sung.
China could usefully explore shifting part of the burden from labor toward property, capital gains, and inheritance taxes.

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