coheir
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Or that some of the estate goes outright to her mother, as coheir?
From Time Magazine Archive
Sir Richard Stafford the eldest son, married Maud daughter and heir of Richard Lovell, Esq., by Elizabeth daughter and coheir of Sir Guy de Briene, knt.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton
His descendant became, in right of his wife, coheir of the house of Sumeri, vested in Weoley-castle.
From An History of Birmingham (1783) by Hutton, William
The eldest daughter and coheir of John Newton of East Newton was married to William Thornton, which family thus became possessed of the estate of East Newton, and quartered the coat assigned by MR.
From Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850 by Various
He had married Alice, daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas Mandeville and received the estates of Stapleford-Taney, Bromfield, Chatham Hall in Great Waltham and Eastwick in Hertfordshire.
From Chaucer's Official Life by Hulbert, James Root
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