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Definition of Heiresses
1. heiress [n] - See also: heiress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heiresses
Literary usage of Heiresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1828)
"... but where the succession is divided among several co-heiresses, not any one
of them can be said to represent the deceased fully ; and consequently, ..."
2. Prideaux's Precedents in Conveyancing: With Dissertations on Its Law and by Frederick Prideaux, John Whitcombe (1889)
"I. DEED of PARTITION by Three CO-Heiresses, one of whom ... CD, and EF, leaving '
his only daughters and co-heiresses) : AND WHEREAS it was co-heiresses, ..."
3. American Life by Paul de Rousiers (1891)
"I.—Heiresses. Let us, first of all, get rid of a subject whose importance is ...
I mean the matter of American heiresses. We know them in France. ..."
4. The Practice of Sales of Real Property, with Precedents of Forms: Comprising by William Hughes (1850)
"Conveyance by four of five co-heiresses, three of whom are married, one single,
and the remaining one an infant, with a covenant that the latter shall ..."
5. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"Under this rule a barony created by writ could, in default of male heirs, descend
to baronial heiresses, who, although they could not themselves sit in the ..."
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