| 单词 | heir presumptive |
| 释义 | > as lemmasheir presumptive heir presumptive n. he who, if the ancestor should die immediately, would be his heir, but whose right of inheritance may be defeated by the contingency of some nearer heir being born. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > heir > heir presumptive heir presumptive1628 c1180 Glanvill ix. i Recipere homagium recti heredis.] 1628 R. Le Grys tr. J. Barclay Argenis iv. 334 The Souldier..with a new oath bound himselfe to the presumptiue Heire. 1683 Britanniæ Speculum 272 Apparent (or according to the new-coyned Distinction, Presumptive) Heir of the Crown is His Royal Highness James [etc.] 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xviii. 202 The duke of Clarence, the heir-presumptive to the throne. < as lemmas |
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