Inheritance (disambiguation)

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, a novel by Steven Savile set in the fictional Warhammer universe about the Von Carstein family
• Inheritance, a play by Hannie Rayson about the inheritance of a family farm in the Mallee
• Inheritance cycle, a fantasy quartet in the making by Christopher Paolini
• Inheritor, a 1996 science fiction novel in the Foreigner Universe of C. J. Cherryh
• Inheritance, a novel by Phyllis Bentley , a 1932 novel set against the background of the English textile industry
• Inheritance (short story), a 1947 science-fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke.

In television:

• Inheritance, an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
• Inheritance, a 1967 ITV drama.

In Movies:

• Inheritance (2003 film), also know as Arven, a 2003 Danish film by Per Fly.

In Science:

• Biological inheritance, the process by which an offspring cell or organism acquires characteristics of its parent cell or organism.
• Inheritance in genetics, the ability of modeled objects to propagate their problem solving genes to the next generation.

In Computing:

• Inheritance in computer science, a way to form new classes in object-oriented programming using classes that have already been defined.

See also

• The Inheritors (disambiguation)
• The Inheritance (disambiguation)