Inheritance vs Devolution - What's the difference?
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The passing of title to an estate upon death.
(lb) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
(lb) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.
A rolling down.
A descent, especially one that passes through a series of revolutions, or by succession
The transference of a right to a successor, or of a power from one body to another.
(pejorative) Degeneration (as opposed to evolution).
(British) The transfer of some powers, and the delegation of some functions, from a central sovereign government to local government; eg. from Westminster to Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly.