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Inheritance and succession

Practice of passing on property, position, or office upon the death, resignation, or stepping down of individuals

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Images from the collections

Images referencing Inheritance and succession

2 images from works
  • Two executors overcharge a heir, taking advantage of their distress. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
  • Jacob offers bread and soup to an exhausted Esau, who has returned from hunting; to the left, angels move upon Jacob's ladder; to the right, the blind Isaac feels Jacob's disguised hands. Engraving by E. Kirkall after Skeitz.

Works from the collections

14 works

    • Ephemera

    Let's make our relationships count : pensions, inheritance, housing, respect : help Stonewall win rights for same-sex partners / Stonewall.

    | Date: [2001?]
    • Books

    Volpone, or The fox / Ben Jonson ; edited by Brian Parker.

    Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637. | Date: 1999
    • 3-D Objects

    Cancer.

    Essen, Tamsin van | Date: 2011 | Reference: 3168164i
    Part of: Medical heirlooms.
    • 3-D Objects

    Ichthyosis.

    Essen, Tamsin van | Date: 2011 | Reference: 3171742i
    Part of: Medical heirlooms.
    • Books

    Doctor Andrew Heron, physician in London, appellant. John Vining Heron, merchant in Portsmouth, respondent. The respondent's case.

    Vining Heron, John. | Date: [1770]

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