inheritance

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   The passing of title to an estate upon death.
2. 2
   That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament, such as the part of an estate (i.e., a portion).
3. 3
   The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited.
4. 4
   The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
5. 5
   The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.