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Webster 1913 Edition

Heirship

Heir′ship

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Noun.

The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting.

Heirship movables

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certain kinds of movables which the heir is entitled to take, besides the heritable estate.

[Scot.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Heirship

HEIRSHIP

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Noun.

areship. The state, character or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting.

1.

Heirship movables, in Scotland, the best of certain kinds of movables which the heir is entitled to take, besides the heritable estate.

Definition 2024

heirship

heirship

English

Noun

heirship ‎(plural heirships)

The status of being heir to something or someone
- 1858, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858:
  He began to fear lest he should be obliged to fulfil the duty of heirship to the property deposited with him.
- 1905, Editor-in-Chief: Rossiter Johnson, The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 8:
  When that outworn empire perished with the fall of Constantinople, Ivan succeeded nominally at least to its heirship.
- 1911, Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm:
  "After this the family interest merely rested on heirship of the estate.