heritage (
http://definr.com/heritage)
n 1: practices that are handed down from the past by tradition;
"a heritage of freedom"
2: any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited
from ancestors; "my only inheritance was my mother's
blessing"; "the world's heritage of knowledge" [syn:
inheritance]
3: that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that
passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner [syn:
inheritance]
4: hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
[syn:
inheritance]