heiress

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Inheriting & bequeathing
assign
beneficiary
bequeath
bequest
cadger
co-executor
executrix
heir
heir apparent
heiress
heirless
inherit
inheritance
legacy
patrimony
pond life
pond scum
primogeniture
probate
settle

inheritor | Business English

inheritor
noun[ C ]
uk /ɪnˈherɪtər/us
PROPERTY
a person who receives money, property, or assets from someone who has died:
A survey of property inheritors confirmed that two-thirds of them promptly sold the houses they were left.

Examples of inheritor

inheritor
It is essentially human to be at once an inheritor, part of a culture, and an innovator, creatively striving within or against tradition.
Although an inheritor may receive several parcels in inheritance, he may exchange, purchase, or conduct other types of transactions to alter the inherited fragmentation.
Certainly, for it to pass around 2020 to further inheritors would be excessive.
They allow for a historical identity to spread from the inheritors of ancestral identities to the landscape itself.
These are some of the closest inheritors of his research, but they are not the only ones.
The property which the inheritor has a natural right to inherit is what the rules specify, a set of rights with contingent duties.
The position of the inheritor, of the believer, is where enlightenment and its opposite meet to bow down before the historicized world.
They also did not hesitate to attribute the same mentality to their alleged national inheritors among their own contemporaries.
Strangely, he never bothers to tell the name of the band he sees, the inheritors of a tradition he wants to show he knows well.
Sadly, there are no contributions (apart from one or two comments) which would constitute the view from below, neither from scholars nor from inheritor administrators.
Natural persons perished, and with this, their property became dispersed among the inheritors.
Another, less likely possibility is that the owner died without issue and that his collateral inheritors were simply not interested in the property.
Women made up a minority of landholders, married women were not named as tenants, sons were preferred to daughters as the inheritors of land.
One possibility when the initiative was proposed was that houses and farms that did not pass to male inheritors would be sold by the treasury.
It was clearly identified as the party of chiefs and therefore the inheritor of their legitimacy and institutions.
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