1 Other recipients are subject to inheritance tax, with rates varying depending on the relationship of the recipient to the deceased. 2  Kentucky: The inheritance tax is a tax on a beneficiary's right to receive property from a decedent's estate.
A horizontal passage leading into a mine for the purposes of access or drainage. âFor the next ten years it was leased to tributors who worked the old stopes of the conglomerate lode above the adit level.â. âMany adits, shafts and tunnels, some extending over 100 m, pursue these veins deep underground.â.
: a pit or tunnel from which minerals (such as coal, gold, diamonds, etc.) are taken â see also gold mine, strip mine 2 : a bomb that is placed in the ground or in water and that explodes when it is touched â see also land mine