<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person who inherits or has a right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter's death.</li><li>Law: (in common law) a person who inherits all the property of a deceased person, as by descent, relationship, will, or legal process.</li><li>Civil Law: a person who legally succeeds to the place of a deceased person and assumes the rights and obligations of the deceased, as the liabilities for debts or the possessory rights to property.</li><li>a person who inherits or is entitled to inherit the rank, title, position, etc., of another.</li><li>a person or group considered as inheriting the tradition, talent, etc., of a predecessor.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. to inherit; succeed to.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>