Inheritance is the assets, rights and obligations that, upon death, a person transmits to his or her legatees or heirs .
From the Latin haerentia , inheritance is the set of assets , rights and obligations that, when a person dies, he transmits to his heirs or legatees. Inheritance is, therefore, the right to inherit ( receive something from a previous situation ).
For example: "My father left me a house on the beach as an inheritance," "Juan Martín spent the entire inheritance on parties and trips , " "It hurts me to know that I won't be able to leave an important inheritance to my children."
Conflicts over an inheritance
It is worth mentioning that for wealthy and large families, the inheritance from parents usually represents the goal of many children, who long in a twisted way for the death of their parents to get part of their fortune . When the moment of distribution arrives, it is also common for violent confrontations to arise due to the surprises brought to light by the will (a document in which it is specified what each descendant will receive or to whom the belongings of the deceased will be bequeathed).
There are many stories of siblings who ignore their parents and who appear at the funeral, like birds of carrion, seeking their share of the inheritance. When one of the siblings dedicates almost their entire life to caring for their parents, whether because they were sick or simply due to the limitations of advanced age , the level of decency and morality of the discussions is even lower, given that the rest of the family members They usually ignore all their efforts and refuse to let this person receive a greater percentage of the inheritance.
Biological inheritance is made up of the phenotypic characters and the genome that a living being receives from its parents.
The concept in biology
For biology , inheritance is composed of the phenotypic and genome characters that living beings receive from their parents.
This type of inheritance is transmitted through the genetic material found in the cell nucleus and which means that the descendant will have characters from one or both parents.
Cultural heritage
Another use of the term inheritance is linked to the cultural , social or economic traits that influence a historical moment and that have their origin in previous stages: "The effusiveness of Argentines is an inheritance from the first Italian immigrants" , "The mistrust in "The authorities are the legacy that ten years of corrupt governments have left us."
The inheritance is also composed of the moral or ideological traits (among others) that characterize an individual and are then seen in his descendants: «The inheritance of Juan Ramón Verón is found in the feet of his son Juan Sebastián, recent champion. of the Copa Libertadores de América with Estudiantes de La Plata" , "It is a shame that this writer cannot show off the heritage of his father, much more talented than him" .
The notion in computing
In the field of computer programming, a class represents a type of object, which has a series of properties and can perform certain functions (called methods ) and it is possible for one class to inherit these characteristics from another. If we take as an example a class we call Entity , whose properties are simply the coordinates of its location in three-dimensional space (represented by the letters x , y , and z ), it would be logical that any class that needed to store its position would be a descendant of Entity .
Applying the principles of inheritance would be very useful, for example, if you wanted to create a Projectile class, since you could take advantage of the Entity position variables; On the other hand, it would need specific properties, such as speed, graph, type of projectile, among others. At the same time, if the highest class had its own methods, its heirs would also have them and could make use of them and even redefine them (if they wanted to implement them in a different way than the original).