inherited right

When a (file or folder's, AKA - Child object) security properties are inherited by its parent folder(parent object).

Ex.
I assign user rights to folder c:\parent under the properities, security tab, and then I go to the advanced button, and select "reset permissions on all child objects and enable propagation of inherited permissions"

Now if I create a folder c:\parent\child, this child folder will be given the user rights I assigned to c:\parent folder, because the rights were inherited.

Also by default any file or folder moved or copied into a folder from a different partition will "inherit" the rights of the folder that it was moved into.

For NTFS the following rule applies;

All Copying Inherits permissions

Only moving to (or within) the same partition retains original permissions.

Hope this answers your question.

Mark