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Inheritance is the transferring of property and debt upon a death to a beneficiary.

Inheritance, or The Inheritance, may also refer to:

Computer science

• Inheritance (genetic algorithm)
• Inheritance (object-oriented programming)

Films

• The Inheritance, American title of the 1947 British film Uncle Silas
• The Inheritance (1962 film) , a film directed by Masaki Kobayashi.
• The Inheritance (1976 film), an Italian drama by Mauro Bolognini
• The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday, a 1992 Czech comedy film by Věra Chytilová
• Inheritance (2001 film), an Argentine drama by Paula Hernández
• The Inheritance (2003 film), also known as Arven in Danish, by Per Fly
• Inheritance (2006 film), documentary by James Moll about the daughter of a concentration camp commandant
• The Inheritance (2007 film), a Scottish road film
• Inheritance (2012 film), by Hiam Abbass
• The Inheritance (2014 film), a documentary about Huntington's disease
• Inheritance (2017 thriller film)
• Inheritance (2017 drama film)
• Inheritance (2020 film), by Vaughn Stein
• Inheritance (2024 Polish film), by Sylwester Jakimow
• The Inheritance (2024 horror film), by Alejandro Brugués
• Inheritance (2025 film), by Neil Burger

Music

Albums

• Inheritance (Hobbs' Angel of Death album), 1995
• Inheritance, a 2013 album by The Last Bison
• Inheritance (Audrey Assad album), 2016
• Inheritances, a 2024 album by Adam Tendler

Songs

• "Inheritance", by Scorpions from Lonesome Crow, later covered by Iron Christ
• "Inheritance", by Talk Talk from Spirit of Eden, later covered by Recoil
• "Inheritance", by New Model Army from Thunder and Consolation
• "Inheritance", by Prong from the Airheads soundtrack
• "Inheritance", by John van Tongeren from Poltergeist: The Legacy
• "Inheritance", by Katatonia from Night Is the New Day
• "The Inheritance (Green)", by The Dear Hunter from The Color Spectrum

Literature

Science fiction and fantasy

• The Inheritance (novel), 2001, in the Dragonlance Dungeon & Dragons setting
• The Inheritance Cycle, a series of young-adult novels by Christopher Paolini
  • Inheritance (Paolini novel), 2011
• Inheritance (Savile novel), 2006, set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe
• "Inheritance" (short story), a 1947 supernatural sci-fi story by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Inheritance Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin

Plays

• Inheritance (play), 2003, by Hannie Rayson, set in Australia
• The Inheritance (play), 2018, by Matthew López

Other books

• The Inheritance, a novel composed in 1849 by Louisa May Alcott and first published in 1997
• Inheritance, a 1932 novel by Phyllis Bentley
• Inheritance, a 2004 novel by Lan Samantha Chang
• The Inheritance, a 2005 translation of a novel by Palestinian writer Sahar Khalifeh
• The Inheritance, a 2010 novel by Simon Tolkien
• Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love, published in 2019 by American novelist Dani Shapiro

Television

• Inheritance (TV series), a 1967 British TV series
• The Inheritance (TV series), a 2023 British TV series
• "Inheritance" (Arrow), a 2019 episode
• "Inheritance" (Star Trek: The Next Generation), episode first aired in 1993
• "Inheritance" (Lassie), a 1954 premiere
• "The Inheritance" (Mad Men), a 2008 television episode
• "The Inheritance" (Grimm), 2014 TV episode

Visual arts

• Inheritance (Munch), a painting by Edvard Munch

See also

• All pages with titles containing Inheritance
• Biological inheritance
• Heritability
• Inheritor (disambiguation)
• Herencia (disambiguation)