coheir
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Or that some of the estate goes outright to her mother, as coheir?
From Time Magazine Archive
It was Mary, daughter of Thomas Peyvre, sixth in descent from Sir Paulinus, that brought the property to her husband Sir John Broughton, and his daughter and coheir Anne to Sir Thomas Cheney.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers
On the same day the lord Berkeley, the other coheir, was made earl of Nottingham.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
Thomas, being the second son, might have had something from his mother Eleanor, daughter and coheir of John Hampden, of Great Hampden, county Bucks.
From Shakespeare's Family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes
But it was out of this man's family that Sophie selected, though ultimately, her coheir.
From She Stands Accused by Victor MacClure
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