heirship
Americannoun
noun
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the state or condition of being an heir
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the right to inherit; inheritance
Etymology
Origin of heirship
Example Sentences
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That heirship hearing would ultimately reveal Taylor’s real identity and offer a window into her troubled past.
From Slate • May 27, 2019
The judge in that heirship case ruled, correctly, that Taylor had no claim on the gambling kingpin’s estate.
From New York Times • May 17, 2019
In glitzy 1889 Paris, hotelier Séverin Montagnet-Alarie’s team of teenage miscreants is helping him exact revenge against those who denied him an heirship 10 years prior.
From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2018
Some appeals are still pending from people whose claims of heirship were rejected earlier.
From The Guardian • May 19, 2017
That, and the thought of all he owed to him who had been Lord of Arden until he came, with his lame foot and his heirship, fretted his soul as rust frets steel.
From Harding's luck by Millar, H. R. (Harold Robert)
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