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the inheritances
noun
The passing of title to an estate upon death.
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He added: "The cost will go mainly towards protecting the inheritances of better-off families.
Probate is the system through which a court determines that a will is legally valid, something that must be done before the inheritances it covers can be given out.
"Most parents and grandparents want the inheritances left in trusts to have a positive influence, and most encourage philanthropy," said James L. Kronenberg, chief fiduciary counsel at Bessemer Trust.
Addressing topics that include celebrity worship, global warming, plastic-surgery obsession, aging parents who spend the inheritances of their resentful children, and the dubious wonders of Viagra, they are no Pollyannas.
In other words, as the ONS puts it, "the inheritances received by a small few had a disproportionately higher value than the majority".
Shawky's upbringing in Alexandria, Egypt, ostensibly confers an intimacy with not just the region but the heterogenous cultures that to this day assimilate the inheritances of the Crusades and Jihads.
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Most of the people inheriting $5 million estates are no doubt quite well-off before the inheritance.
The inheritance is multigenerational.
Islam continued with the inheritance.
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The inheritance can also be unwholesome.
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