coheir
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Or that some of the estate goes outright to her mother, as coheir?
From Time Magazine Archive
His first wife was Lady Amiable Grey, eldest daughter and coheir of the Duke of Kent.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Peter Cunningham
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 William Henry Hamilton Rogers
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 William Hutton
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
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