jurisprudence,
law the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
primogeniture right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son
borough english a former English custom by which the youngest son inherited land to the exclusion of his older brothers
accretion (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance)
heirloom something that has been in a family for generations
heritage -
any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors; "my only inheritance was my mother's blessing"; "the world's heritage of knowledge"
acquisition the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something; "the acquisition of wealth"; "the acquisition of one company by another"