heirs at law
- plural of heir at law.
Example Sentences
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Numerous heirs at law, reversioners, and creditors implored the Upper House to introduce such provisoes as might secure the innocent against all danger of being involved in the punishment of the guilty.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
You and your sisters are the heirs at law.
From The Corner House Girls How they moved to Milton, what they found, and what they did by Hill, Grace Brooks
Now, listen to this: 'Next of kin; information wanted concerning the whereabouts of James Douglas Carmichael, or his heirs at law.
From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by Campbell, John
The principal beneficiaries, however, under that will, the widow and daughter of Gordon, agreed to a division of the estate which was satisfactory to the other heirs at law, and the matter apparently was settled.
"Then your heirs at law would collect the insurance," Ryan told him composedly.
From The Sheriff's Son by Raine, William MacLeod
