coheir
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- coheiress noun
- coheirship noun
Etymology
Origin of coheir
Example Sentences
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Or that some of the estate goes outright to her mother, as coheir?
From Time Magazine Archive
John Legge married Agnes de Northwode, coheir of the manour of Ertindon in Surrey.
From Chaucer's Official Life by Hulbert, James Root
His second wife was Anne daughter and coheir of Sir John Broughton of Toddington, in the county of Bedford, knt., by whom he had an only son Henry, who became his heir.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton
Charlotte, dau. and coheir of Sir Peter Warren, K.G., and dying in 1799, was succeeded by his son, Montague, fifth and present Earl of Abingdon, born in 1784, m.
From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous
He married Catharine, second daughter and coheir of George Sondes, Earl of Feversham, and died in 1745.-D.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter
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