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Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations.
n.
A female heir.
v.
Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.
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To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
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Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock.
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The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir.
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That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance.
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Abandoned; having no heir, possessor, claimant, or occupier; as, a vacant estate.
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Having the right or just claim according to established laws; being or holding by right; as, the rightful heir to a throne or an estate; a rightful king.
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Destitute of an heir.
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One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues.
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The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor or successors any inheritance, legacy, right, or privilege, to which he is entitled, even if he should die without enjoying or exercising it.
v. i.
To come or descend; to be fixed; to take effect, as a title or right; -- followed by in; as, upon the death of the ancestor, the estate, or the right to the estate, vests in the heir at law.
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A Cossack headman or general. The title of chief hetman is now held by the heir to the throne of Russia.
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A covenant real, whereby the grantor of an estate of freehold and his heirs were bound to warrant and defend the title, and, in case of eviction by title paramount, to yield other lands of equal value in recompense. This warranty has long singe become obsolete, and its place supplied by personal covenants for title. Among these is the covenant of warranty, which runs with the land, and is in the nature of a real covenant.
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Destitute of an heir.
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The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting.
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Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown.
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The state of an heir; succession by inheritance.
v. t.
To fall heir to; to inherit.
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