| 单词 | heir female |
| 释义 | > as lemmasheir female heir female n. an heiress; also an heir (male or female) whose rights are derived through a female or females. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > heir > female heir or heir through female ancestors heir femalec1436 c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 121 Tenementz..ben partable as weel be twixen heires male as be twixen heyres female. c1575 Balfour's Practicks (1754) 227 Ane air mail or female may enter to his blanch landis at ony time. 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 59 Lands halden be frie Soccage, quhen heires male and famell baith persews. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Hoir de quenouille, an inheritrix, heire female, daughter and heire. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xiv. 423 Having lately fallen to Heirs Females. < as lemmas |
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