heritor


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Synonyms for heritor

a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another

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Heritors (citizens) of the parish, obliged by law to support the poor, objected to the extravagant cost of the affair and questioned its propriety as a charge against the poor fund.
Buchan joined Bermuda law firm Wakefield Quin in April as a specialist in investment funds after Heritor's collapsed.
Clifford's architectural restoration projects also serve as memorials and proclaim her fulfillment of her role as a proper heritor of the Clifford estates.
17) for 'as a ward to the son' and 'make thee heritor' (II.77-8) for 'To make thee capable'.
Surely Ludwig von Mises, finding in his adopted homeland only an untenured professorship at NYU unfunded by the school, and Russell Kirk, who quipped that he would have been "better off frying chicken for Colonel Sanders's heritors" after paying contributors to Modern Age out of his pocket, didn't adopt their beliefs as an exercise in careerism.
"Communist propaganda," Nabokov writes, depicted Russian emigres as "villainous generals, oil magnates, and gaunt ladies with lorgnettes." Against this image suggesting treachery and irrelevance, Nabokov redefines the emigre world as that of writers and poets, the heritors of the prerevolutionary Russian culture.
The earth is the heritage of man, and these are a portion of the heritors. We are not bound to support them; they must support themselves.
'Heritors' (landowners) had an equally deep-seated suspicion about how the Kirk Session would spend money--and the political clout to ensure their own vision of 'economy' prevailed--a situation not reached in England until 1834.
A document from August 1684 records fines totalling 274,737 [pounds sterling] Scots (nearly 23,000 [pounds sterling] sterling) levied on the heritors of Roxburghshire alone.
In its introduction, he defends Rossetti's poems and paintings as heritors of a late romantic tradition which "began and ended.
Its creation was itself a moment of racial innocence of the sort that continues to bedevil its heritors. If the Founding Fathers articulated a set of democratic principles and established a system of democratic institutions that have been used to redress racial injustice, they were also unable to conceive of a democratic order that would include black Americans as citizens.
Because of such philanthropic gestures, the Maxwells were well regarded by their tenant farmers and as heritors they took their responsibilities seriously.
Her assendants in the male line for several Generations, have been Burgesses Merchants & Heritors in the Ancient Royal Borough of Rothesay; Her connections both by Father & Mother have also long been real Freeholders & Voters in the County of Bute; Her Father was one of the Magistrates of Rothesay, and above Twenty years a Counsellor there.