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Definition of Heirs
1. heir [v] - See also: heir
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heirs
Literary usage of Heirs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"As to prescription, the mortgagor having failed to plead it, its effect is forever
lost as to him and his heirs'. As to the want of re- inscription, ..."
2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1920)
"To saÜ Thomas Maister, my son, and to his heirs and assigns for ever all the house
... To said Peter, my son, and the heirs of his body my house at No wood, ..."
3. Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session by United States Congress. House (1843)
"On motion of Mr. Parmenter, Ordered, That the Committee on Revolutionary Claims
be discharged from the petition of the heirs of Benjamin Stoddert, deceased, ..."
4. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"(c) When word "heirs" not necessary.—For, 1. It does not extend to devises by
will; in which as they were introduced at the time when the feudal rigor was ..."
5. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1879)
"Which liberties and privileges, the said subjects of us, our heirs and successors,
shall enjoy without notable damage or injury in any wise to be done to ..."
6. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"(111 SB) and once In the habendum, is followed In the warranty by the words
to "Mary Regan and the heirs of her body." What was the Intention of the grantor ..."
7. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"891. and a trust patent issued thereunder to an Indian, the heirs of the Indian
as well as the patentee were without power to convey title for 25 years, ..."
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