inheritance

practice of passing on property, position, or office upon the death, resignation, or stepping down of individuals
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inheritance
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inheritance

Summary

inheritance ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,431 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • inheritance is a type of legal act[2].
  • inheritance's Commons category is recorded as Inheritance[3].
  • inheritance's facet of is recorded as heritance and succession law[4].
  • inheritance's facet of is recorded as inheritance norm[5].
  • inheritance's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[6].
  • inheritance's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7].
  • inheritance's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • inheritance's described by source is recorded as Lean Logic[9].
  • inheritance's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10].
  • inheritance's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[11].
  • inheritance's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[12].
  • inheritance's described by source is recorded as Pax Leksikon[13].
  • inheritance's different from is recorded as heritage[14].
  • inheritance's different from is recorded as inheritance in the Netherlands[15].
  • inheritance's different from is recorded as heredity[16].

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Definition and Type

inheritance is a type of legal act[2].

Why It Matters

inheritance ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,431 views/month).[1] inheritance has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] inheritance is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 13d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Facet of heritance and succession law, inheritance norm
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    Described by source Otto's encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +5
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 6827, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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