If someone dies before reaching retirement age, the money in the account can become part of an inheritance.

The rest of the slaves were passed on as part of an inheritance.

Matlack told them that this was only part of an inheritance that he'd suddenly come into.

One ancestor had imprisoned his own mother in a tower to extract his part of an inheritance.

Then there are the Wintertons, who used public money to "rent" a house they have given to their children as part of an inheritance tax avoidance strategy.

Ankh-Morpork resident Arthur Winkins became a vampire as part of an inheritance that included an old castle in Überwald and the accompanying noble title.

A final type of collector is the 'inheritor', an accidental collector who acquires coins (a collection, hoard or investment) from another person as part of an inheritance.

In 1267 the abbey received the patronage of the church in Maselheim as part of an inheritance and in 1293 (temporarily) the village of Ringschnait.

Economists have traditionally assumed that people treat every dollar the same way-whether it's owed to the bank, won in the lottery, or coming to them three years hence as part of an inheritance.

Most children and grandchildren who must forfeit part of an inheritance are from similarly middle-class families where assets arose from hard work and steady savings - family values that shouldn't be penalized.

In a document dated 1489, Mencia de Forera has been mentioned as Juan Ponce de Leon y Ayala's concubine who was left part of an inheritance of lands in Carmona.

"My grandmother was married to a house painter who died when he was 40," said Ms. Hopkins, a nurse and researcher at Yale-New Haven Hospital, explaining that the money to buy the house was part of an inheritance.

The game will play a major part in the upcoming American television situation comedy The Goodwin Games, in which the main characters are given a customized version that was created by their late father as part of an inheritance they stand to receive if they get the questions right.