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[ noun ] a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another
Used in print (William C. Smith, "Why Fear Ideas?"...)The son and heir of a prominent family marries a girl who has tell-tale shadows on the half-moons of her finger_nails . (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)Although Faulkner was the heir in his own family to this tradition , he did not have Stark_Young 's inclination to romanticize and sentimentalize the planter society . (Your Federal Income Tax. 1962 Edition (Revised to...)If you are an income beneficiary of property held in trust or an heir , legatee , or devisee , you may deduct allowable depreciation and depletion , if not deductible by the estate or trust . Related terms recipient heiress heir_apparent heir_presumptive heir-at-law inherit |
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