NOUN
- a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another
How To Use heritor In A Sentence
- He once, indeed, wished that they would amend the roof of his book-room, which "rained in" [I-23] in a very pluvious manner; but receiving no direct answer from our friend Meiklewham, who neither relished the proposal nor saw means of eluding it, the minister quietly made the necessary repairs at his own expense, and gave the heritors no farther trouble on the subject. St. Ronan's Well
- Other distinctions to be wary of include whether the tax is on the estate of the deceased or on what an inheritor actually receives.
- When someone was believed to be a heritor and he turns not to be, the inheritance partition will be null.
- Proud inheritor of the magnificent De Beers diamond, at 234.5 metric carats, one of the world's largest, he got Cartier of Paris to create a spectacular five-stringed necklace shaped like a bib to showcase it.
- It marks the arrival of a new inheritor of Rome and a competitor to the Byzantines.
- This claim of an existing Assyrian nation that is supposed to be the real heritor of what is now Iraq is obviously void.
- The granddaughter and last direct descendant of the late Greek tycoon is also the inadvertent inheritor of a tragic family history.
- As the elite, Akhund is not only the inheritor and disseminator of Islam, but also the elucidator and defender of Sharia and Islam religious doctrine.
- They are the problem in Mindanao because they have always been the aggressors, oppressors and colonizers, the inheritors of piratic colonialism.
- Can I separate my father's twin - brother, joint inheritor, and next successor, from himself?'