heredes
Americannoun
noun
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In this curious document we read the names of Christopher and James—"Christophorem et Jacobum, fratres de Columbi, filiis et heredes quondam Dominici eorum patris."
From Cuba Past and Present by Davey, Richard
William the duke of Guien died bethout heire masle, uppon his voiage he made to seint Alienora et Alici� fili� et heredes Will'mi ducis Guion.
From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown
Here then was a voluntary transfer of more or less property at pleasure to persons freely chosen, who were not necessarily universal successors, if they ever were, and who nevertheless took under the name heredes.
From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
At about the same time the Earl of Chester and Huntingdon gave a charter to Chester forbidding trade in the town “nisi ipsi cives mei Cestrie et eorum heredes vel per eorum gratum.”
From The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury by Hibbert, Francis Aiden
Mille pedes in fronte, trecentos cippus in agrum Hic dabat, heredes monumentum ne sequeretur.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
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