coheir
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Or that some of the estate goes outright to her mother, as coheir?
From Time Magazine Archive
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
John Legge married Agnes de Northwode, coheir of the manour of Ertindon in Surrey.
From Chaucer's Official Life by Hulbert, James Root
In Berry's "Sussex Genealogies" we find that George Ardern, son of George Ardern, born in Chester, came to Chichester, married Catharine, daughter and coheir of Robert Palmer, Esq., and had three sons—George, John, and Richard.
From Shakespeare's Family by Stopes, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael)
The Duke of Portland, representing Margaret Pelham, the Duke's eldest coheir; 3.
From Notes and Queries, Number 48, September 28, 1850 by Various
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