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Definition of Heir-at-law
1. Noun. The person legally entitled to inherit the property of someone who dies intestate.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heir-at-law
Literary usage of Heir-at-law
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roman Private Law in the Times of Cicero and of the Antonines by Henry John Roby (1902)
"The method adopted was for the heir-at-law to sell the inheritance for a ...
The heir-at-law stipulated that the heir by trust should indemnify him for ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages by John Joseph Powell, Thomas Coventry (1822)
"would go to the heir at law ; the reason of which resolution is plainly, that
they are in the nature of new purchases, which the testator had not, ..."
3. A Treatise on Wills by Thomas Jarman, Joseph Fitz Randolph, William Talcott (1880)
"Stone, (o) where a testator, by an unattested will, gave the remainder of his
estate to his next of kin or TO "next of heir at law. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Samuel March Phillipps (1822)
"(2) As to the second point, namely, that the claimant is heir at law of the person
from whom he claims, he will have to show, either that he is lineally ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1844)
"It is extraordinary, that the testator should add " heir at law," meaning next
of kin. He meant to correct the former description by explaining it to mean ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Walter Vere Vaughan Williams (1877)
"the testatrix devised, inter alia, a real estate to a person not her heir-at-law;
and by a codicil she gave a pecuniary legacy " to my heir. ..."
7. A Treatise on the Law of Contracts by Charles Greenstreet Addison (1881)
"Thj heir-at-law was liable, at common law, to an action for a breach of a covenant
... (£) The heir-at-law was also liable, in common with the personal ..."
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