Inheritance is when people pass on property and debts when they die.

Inheritance or inheritor may also be:

In literature:

• The Inheritors by Nobel Prize winner William Golding
• Inheritor (novel), a 1996 science fiction novel by C. J. Cherryh
• Inheritance (novel), a 2011 book part of the Inheritance Cycle

In other fields:

• Heredity, the genetic information passed on by the father and mother
• Inheritance (computer science), a way to make new classes using others that are already made

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