单词 | coheir |
释义 | coheirn. a. One who participates in an inheritance; a joint heir. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > heir > coheir comparcionerc1475 parcener1489 coparcener1503 copartner?1504 co-inheritor1526 coheir1532 fellow-heir1542 coheritor1548 comportioner1609 heir portioner1655 1532 [see sense c]. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Qivv/1 A Coheyre, cohæres. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 127 Tiberius..had adioyned coheire unto him another of his Nephews under age. 1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero II. xi. 509 Coheir in part of his Uncle's estate. 1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. III. 252 The petitioner was one of the coheirs of John Lord Botetourt. 1861 H. S. Maine Anc. Law vi. 181 A group of persons considered in law as a single unit, might succeed as co-heirs to the Inheritance. b. said of a woman: a coheiress n. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > heir > coheir > female coheir1586 coheiressa1640 1586 J. Ferne Lacies Nobilitie 68 His wife—being the cousen and one of the coheyres to William Romary. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) ii. i. 150 I haue three daughters..they are co-heyres . View more context for this quotation c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 57 A Coe heir. 1866 J. B. Burke Dormant & Ext. Peerages 293/1 Alice, one of the daughters and co-heirs of Hugh de Bolebec. c. figurative. (Frequently as a translation of συγκληρονόμοι in Romans viii. 17.) ΚΠ 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 700/1 Heires of god, coheires of Christ. 1650 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Living iv. §1 232 Now God hath made us Heirs of his Kingdom, and Coheirs with Jesus. Derivatives coˈheirship n. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > heir > coheir > position of parcenaryc1436 coparcenary1503 coparceny1556 coheirship1608 copartnershipa1676 fellow-heirship1840 1608 Dispute Question of Kneeling 3 The Princely and glorious coheirship purchased for them by Christ. 1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. III. 248 It falls into abeyance..during the continuance of the coheirship. 1866 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Feb. 9/2 The abeyance of an ancient barony was terminated in favour of a gentleman in whom ‘one-fourth of a third of the coheirship’ of it vested. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1532 |
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