legal inheritance
What wills transfer
Legal inheritance is property, money, or rights that pass to someone upon another person's death according to law.
The term distinguishes what heirs receive through statutory rules of succession from what they might receive through a will or other arrangement: Without a will, the estate passed by legal inheritance to his children.
Legal inheritance also refers to the body of law governing such transfers.
- probateWill validation proceedings
- willFaculty of deliberate choice
- real propertyLand plus permanent attachments
- decedentLegal term for deceased
- personal propertyMovable owned assets
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Exclusion from inheritance
expropriation · confiscation · asset seizure · dispossession · theft
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