Heirs [noun]

Definition of Heirs:

person who inherits possessions

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Sentence/Example of Heirs:

Failing all these heirs, Randolph was to be guardian until Parliament should determine the succession.

In those cases it was very rarely that their heirs touched a penny, and certainly the Government reaped no advantage.

Any person who is interested in a mortgaged estate has the right to redeem it; heirs, devisees, creditors.

On the promise of eternal life the heirs of it lay hold in Covenanting; and to this they were chosen.

Notwithstanding the failure of heirs male in three noble families within the century, viz.

Eliza how discontented he has become with his nearest relatives, and even with his heirs.

Children, perhaps, would be dearer to their parents and parents to their children, were it not for the latter being their heirs.

He approves the remark of Scipione Ammirato, that she contracted four successive marriages through a desire to have direct heirs.

A permanent garrison was to be established, and ‘every soldier to be made master of his own land, to him and his heirs for ever.’

By this the State divides an estate amongst the heirs without any reference to the wishes of the proprietor at his death.