单词 | inheritance |
释义 | inheritance (ɪnherɪtəns ) Word forms: inheritances 1. variable noun An inheritance is money or property which you receive from someone who has died. She feared losing her inheritance to her stepmother. Synonyms: legacy, estate, heritage, provision 2. countable noun [usually singular, oft with poss] If you get something such as job, problem, or attitude from someone who used to have it, you can refer to this as an inheritance. ...the situation that was Truman's inheritance as President. 3. singular noun Your inheritance is the particular characteristics or qualities which your family or ancestors had and which you are born with. Eye colour shows your genetic inheritance. Collocations: cultural inheritance We have become inured to it through our cultural inheritance. Times, Sunday Times He, however, lives with his own cultural inheritance. Times, Sunday Times This country's cultural inheritance will be diminished the longer that this misconceived policy remains. Times, Sunday Times Humans have a great cultural inheritance as well as a physical, genetic inheritance. Times, Sunday Times And it's part of our common cultural inheritance. Globe and Mail Yet the [two sons] have enough money to pay big legal fees for their inheritance dispute. Times,Sunday Times The marriage was arranged to avoid a potential inheritance dispute within the different family branches. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As a growing number of inheritance disputes hit the courts, the difficulties of settling family grievances and the importance of making a clear will have never been so obvious. Times, Sunday Times About one third of cases were family problems, mostly inheritance disputes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Often, as a result of inheritance disputes, plots were split into ever smaller pieces. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 People often purchase foreign properties through companies to sidestep local tax or inheritance laws. Times, Sunday Times They have already forced the island to drop inheritance laws that banned daughters or younger sons from inheriting any of the 40 tenancies. Times, Sunday Times However, the estates would do little more than abolish the obsolete marriage and inheritance laws and a few commercial monopolies. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It aims to compensate daughters, as the inheritance laws favor the sons. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Thus, there remains a mismatch between marriage practices and inheritance laws, with the strength and biases of the marriage practice often overriding inheritance laws. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He views inheritance of property as essentially illegitimate. Times,Sunday Times This section dealt mostly with inheritance of property. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It generally involves the inheritance of property, names, or titles through the male line. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some of his public utterances in 1913, in which he appeared to advocate radical ideas in regard to the inheritance of property, caused much criticism. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But the social imprimatur and even the legal and inheritance rights leave many unmoved. Times, Sunday Times Her dowry, any inheritance rights transferred through her marriage, and any property acquired by her after marriage belonged to him. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Autonomy was strengthened when the county families began to affirm their inheritance rights. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Thus, no contemporary document explains as under which conditions a crown prince received inheritance rights and why so many crown princes were never coronated. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When monarchs or heirs apparent wed other monarchs or heirs special agreements, sometimes in the form of treaties, were negotiated to determine inheritance rights. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If you receive an inheritance, 40% of anything over 325,000 will be taxed. Times, Sunday Times Growing life expectancy means, however, that future generations will have to wait almost until their own retirement to receive an inheritance. Times, Sunday Times Indeed, 75% of them have received or expect to receive an inheritance. Times, Sunday Times Beneficiaries named in his will would only receive their inheritance once funeral costs and debts have been paid. Times, Sunday Times The process typically takes between 9 and 18 months, at the end of which relatives will receive their inheritance. Times, Sunday Times Deprived of her rightful inheritance by her evil sister and a corrupt attorney, she had a feckless husband. Times, Sunday Times High levels of divorce and remarriage are also complicating legacies, as members of extended stepfamilies battle for what they consider to be their rightful inheritance. Times, Sunday Times What could possibly prevent them from assuming their rightful inheritance next year? Times, Sunday Times She works to regain her family's rightful inheritance that had been stolen from them by the monarchy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He probably never expected to inherit much, especially with so many cousins vying for their rightful inheritances. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 遗产 Japanese: 相続 |
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