| 词汇 | example_english_heir |
| 释义 | Examples of heirThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Not all the heirs of the landowners who tried to take advantage of this process achieved positive results. After his death in 1887 the canero left his heirs a house, some furniture, a few clothes, and one piece of silver. Conversely, the heirs may struggle over their inheritance and jeopardise the continuity of the firm. Too many of them, however, were not only cr itics of this legacy, but also its heirs. Her father's prohibiting any of his children from marrying may be seen as his wish not to have heirs of mixed blood. We are the heirs, the beneficiaries of a previous humanity which dared on our behalf. Wealthy farmers could afford to divide their land among multiple heirs. Both were heirs to earlier trading centres and took shape within existing business networks and well-established commercial institutions. The late medieval household sometimes contained two ie, the father's and his heir's, and thus two wives. Only when such male heirs are not forthcoming, would female heirs qualify. Although gender-neutral in principle, the provision of virtually unrestricted testamentary powers can be used to disinherit potential female heirs. The degree to which this translates to behavior and the intentions of heirs is not known. Not surprisingly, however, given the incomparably greater structural discontinuities, we can detect far fewer 'natural heirs'. Overall, the study questions accepted categories like family patriarchs, helpless women, independent heirs, and the landed\\middle-class divide. American colonials were heirs to a long tradition saying that "the government of any state must form a nurturing bond with religious institutions" (p. 45). Two further links can be traced through female heirs. Of the freehold properties examined in the sample, two further kin links through female heirs can be established. The allocation of the tenancy was then made and, if necessary, the competing claims of several heirs judged by a panel of seventeen men. In theory, the person contemplating death is powerless to affect the relative entitlement of his heirs. I found that it was the upbringing of the heirs that played the crucial role in the successive transformations of the myth. However, if there were conflicts regarding the distribution of the legacy among heirs it could have taken some time to sort things out. In addition, posthumously appointed male heirs were allowed only partial inheritance rights, even when the deceased couple had no surviving daughters. All the heirs, whether male or female, were treated equally. On the one hand, they could bring wealthy dowries ; they also were the progenitors of the heirs who would continue the house. In contrast, if trees are planted, individual tenure security is enhanced and rights to transfer land to desired heirs are strengthened. In the remaining eighteen cases the property was divided among the surviving heirs. Male heirs of these houses contracted marriages with pubilles in 12.2 per cent of the generations. However, the remaining heirs include two women and three sons-in-law, or the adopted spouses of heiresses. Nevertheless, male heirs overall were more often to have no evidence of marriage. The direct bloodline was most often a patriline, but could follow the matriline if male heirs were adopted from outside. Male heirs who inherited when the former head retired, however, were most often married with a spouse present in the household. However, daughters provided a way for families to recruit capable heirs from outside the family while still maintaining the bloodline connection. Moreover, adoption of heirs from outside the family was also relatively common among the non-elite classes. Even if the tactic was not, strictly speaking, traditional, the only constituency harmed was female heirs, and they were not politically influential. Prospective heirs may not be interested if taking on additional firms would thin their supervision and raise the risk of failure to their own firms. Admittedly, it is often difficult to find the authors or their heirs. Furthermore, every col wic spirit expected surviving relatives to provide it with posthumous heirs by marrying a living ' ghost wife ' (ciek joka) in its name. They often re-erupted among heirs, leading to successive, and often inconclusive, conflicts lasting for several generations, complicated further by tenant agreements. The images came in a variety of forms, and not infrequently land might accompany the saint so that the heirs could service it properly. To publish is take that risk, to oblige oneself, and one's intellectual allies and heirs, to defend one's claims in public. Their heirs and families then perpetuated their memory, providing a living monument to their achievement. Who was linked as heirs or beneficiaries of religious endowments? How could they pass the business on to their heirs if, when they ceased trading, the licence for the shop also expired? Through purchase these parties alienated property so it could not be returned to its legitimate heirs. When these (typically outcasted) women amassed property, the devolution of their estate became the subject of dispute between degraded and undegraded heirs. Today's dictionaries are the heirs of a long lexicographical tradition. To die without heirs became, therefore, the probable consequence. Beyond this general difference in patterns, however, both regions shared the characteristic that males were usually designated heirs when the previous head retired. Male heirs inheriting upon the death of the former head frequently show no evidence of ever having been married. In summary, although men were by far the preferred heirs, women were also important. The evidence would also indicate that a preference for male heirs had as yet not been established in this period. I have also included heirs who married pubilles from other houses. Quite unexpectedly, therefore, they became heirs to the family fortune. The heirs retained ownership of the mission ruins as of 1960. Still, the number of possible heirs remained very large. The first was to divide the property equally among the heirs who then took it in turn to accommodate and provide for the pensioners. I also learned of archival documents on the heirs' preparation for the throne. The second one consists of the expected level of future inheritance, the average consumption of the heirs, and the lump-sum transfer resulting from bequest taxation. The caretaker may be or may not be one of the heir's relatives. Slaveholders, heirs of a secular cultural of domination, were cautious and efficiently violent when necessary ; they were hardly terrified or panicked by their society. The particular advantage of this selfannuitization strategy compared to the life annuity is its greater liquidity and the possibility of leaving money for heirs. The other major preoccupation of testators was the bequeathing of favourite saints to preferred heirs. Women also became heirs but historians have advanced two contrasting claims about the significance of household headship by females. Also, in all these states, a woman (in any capacity) gets only a limited estate, and after her death the holding goes to the heirs of the last male landowner. The household arrangements of farmers' children depended on whether they were the heirs, managed to marry into a farm or slid down into the landless group. The colonia contract had no fixed term, because colonos and landlords committed themselves and their heirs to complying with the conditions of the contract while it should last. Since the rightful heirs were protected by law, all of the children of those retiring had to be asked whether they wished to join in contributing to the parents' pension. Physicians today are the heirs of trust that was engendered by those who came before them, while their actions today create the legacy for those who will come after. Most farmers' stakes are essential and linked with short term, elementary needs, with their social status and solidarity links, or with getting their heirs into a better position. They make the heir's world comprehensible. The genealogies show how, in some cases, fate, in the form of reproductive chance (death without male heirs), was seized upon in order to further specific ambitions. On the other, young men of similar social status were discouraged from matrimony so as to prevent the fragmentation of the patrimony which would ensue from a proliferation of heirs. Other 'classes' of heirs follow. Likewise, the beneficiary had to give a copy of the will to the other heirs ; in this way, they would be informed of the existence of the will. However, the legal requirement of equal division of the estate among heirs made it impossible for land alone to remain as the foundation of the family's fortune. We have assumed that most were heirs. Having obliterated the threat of armed rebellion and violent interregnal strife, colonial rule made it unnecessary to continue to exclude potential heirs to the throne from positions of territorial responsibility. The new status quo was confirmed by a 1718 legal decision that upheld the king's absolute right to guardianship of the carnal heirs of his body politic. However, the path of inheritance expectations, average consumption of the heirs, and lump-sum transfers affect the saving behaviour of households, and they need be consistent with this behaviour. As a consequence, land that was inherited was the heir's private property but could not be sold or given away without the approval of the family. His son had no heirs. The migrant owes his tuteur a perennial gratitude (transferred to his heirs), expressed through gifts of agricultural products, contributions to his tuteur's expenses at times of funerals, and so forth. As an output of the second step, we obtain the ex post levels of bequest, of average consumption of the heirs and of lump sum transfers balancing the bequest taxes. They may also save for general reasons such as for a "rainy day" or to leave money to their heirs. Naturally the heirs to the computer-builders are somewhat disappointed about this. A father instituted his son and daughter heirs and left them each prior legacies of certain lands and loan books. In the case of a perfect annuity, agents annuitise all their wealth and bequeath nothing to their heirs. On the death of the retired couple, the inheritance was distributed among the direct heirs. The holdings of a decedent with no lineal descendants and no designated heirs reverted back to the community for reassignment. One possibility is that these heads had looked for heirs but failed. Nevertheless, despite the inheritance custom giving preference to male heirs, the number of female heirs is not insignificant. After all, we are in effect the heirs and keepers of this ambivalent image of the pandit. In this context, the control of houses and farms was potentially very lucrative, and women heirs were not a particularly powerful group. Division of property among heirs could take place only at the man's death, and the property went in the first instance equally to his sons. Given that annuity markets are imperfect, people may leave substantial estates even though they have no altruistic feelings towards their heirs. With land inherited within a matrilineage, the members of the heir's lineage segment have priority, rather than his children. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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