单词 | heir-at-law |
释义 | heir-at-law (once / 32923 pages) n WORD FAMILY heir-at-law USAGE EXAMPLESIf he dies intestate it goes to his heir-at-law, and if he devises the estate it goes to the devisee. Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2012) The heir-at-law was well inclined to it, but melancholy, so that the people dare not trust to a settlement from him. Coleman, Thomas, Memorials of the Independent Church...(2011) The estate would go, of course, to the heir-at-law, strictly entailed as it had been for many generations. Bolderwood, Rolf, Nevermore(2011) n the person legally entitled to inherit the property of someone who dies intestate Hyper heir, heritor, inheritor a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another |
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