单词 | heritor |
释义 | heritorn. 1. One who inherits; an heir or heiress. a. by law. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > heir erewardc975 arfnamec1000 heirc1275 inheritor1433 heritor1475 inheritanta1535 1475 Bk. Noblesse (1860) 4 King Edward the thrid, first heriter to the said Royaume of Fraunce. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xxiv Hys cosyn germaine, the vicount of Chateau Bein, who is the heryter. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xliii. f. lvii/2 They sholde take his doughter..Who was as then but fyue yeres of aege, for herytoure of ye royalme of Portyngale. c1575 Balfour's Practicks (1754) 230 The heritouris and airis may be followit at the ȝeiris end. 1879 T. P. O'Connor Ld. Beaconsfield 74 The heritor of the Duke's title and land. b. by nature or acquisition. ΚΠ c1530 Enterlude of Youth p. iv And thou shalte be an herytour of blysse. 1823 New Monthly Mag. 7 327 The fierce heritors of his renown. 1877 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth (ed. 4) xiii. 123 Our days are heritors of days gone by. 2. Scots Law. The proprietor of a heritable subject; ‘in connexion with parochial law, the term is confined to such proprietors of land or houses as are liable in payment of public burdens’ (Bell Dict. Law Scotl.). heritor's court, the court of a subject superior held within the bounds of his own fee and heritage. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > landowner landlorda1000 lordOE lairdc1379 mailerc1485 landman1562 heritor1597 landowner1742 land-proprietor1815 territorialist1845 1597 Monipenny Chron. in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts (1816) III. 395 An iland, which is not divided by any haven or port of the sea, but by the severall lordships of the heritours thereof. 1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 217 O that Christ were restored to be a freeholder and a landed heritor in Scotland. 1693 Apol. Clergy Scotl. 17 Their Parliament lodged the power of Election in the Heretors and Elders of each Parish. 1697 G. Dallas Syst. Stiles 736 A Heretor of Salmond~fishing within the Territory of the Burgh. 1746–7 Act 20 Geo. II c. 50 §21 No tenant..liable to perform any services whatsoever to his heretor or landlord. 1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. iv. 83 In Scotland no law exists by which repair [of a road] can be enforced; provided the heritors of a parish can show that their statute labour has been expended. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1475 |
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