Inheritance and succession
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85066373
- info:lc/authorities/sh85066373
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85066373#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Bequests
- Descent and distribution
- Descents
- Hereditary succession
- Inheritance and succession--Law and legislation
- Intestacy
- Intestate succession
- Law of succession
- Succession, Intestate
Broader Terms
Narrower Terms
- Ademption
- Benefit of inventory
- Charitable bequests
- Claims against decedents' estates
- Co-heirs
- Contracts to make wills
- Curtesy
- Decedents' estates
- Decedents' family maintenance
- Disinheritance
- Distribution of decedents' estates
- Distribution of decedents' estates
- Dower
- Droit d'aubaine
- Election (Wills)
- Entail
- Escheat
- Estate settlement costs
- Estates (Law)
- Fideicommissum
- Freedom of testation
- Heir apparent
- Inheritance and transfer tax--Law and legislation
- Inheritance and transfer tax--Law and legislation
- Inquisitiones post mortem
- Kings and rulers--Succession
- Legacies
- Legacies
- Legitime
- Marriage settlements
- Mejora
- Primogeniture
- Probate law and practice
- Renunciation of inheritance
- Restraints on alienation
- Reversion
- Separation of patrimony
- Spouse's share
- Substitution of heirs
- Testamentary trusts
- Unworthiness of heirs
- Widow's allowance
- Wills
- Wills
- Worthier title
Related Terms
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Narrower Concepts from Other Schemes
Inheritance and succession--Argentine provinces 
- Inheritance and succession--Certification
- Inheritance and succession--Computer-assisted instruction
- Inheritance and succession--Econometric models
- Inheritance and succession--Economic aspects
- Inheritance and succession--German states
- Inheritance and succession--Law and legislation
- Inheritance and succession--Law and legislation--U.S. states
- Inheritance and succession--Mathematical models
- Inheritance and succession--Political aspects
- Inheritance and succession--Public opinion
- Inheritance and succession--Research
- Inheritance and succession--Social aspects
- Inheritance and succession--U.S. states
- Inheritance and succession--Yugoslavian republics
LC Classification
- HB715
Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 2009-05-08: revised
Alternate Formats
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