Heritor

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  • noun. An inheritor.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In Scots law, the proprietor of a heritable subject; a proprietor or landholder in a parish.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A proprietor or landholder in a parish.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A person who inherits; an heir or heiress
  • noun. A proprietor or landholder in a parish.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another
  • Word Usage
    "David being a virtuoso in his own way, and moreover a landholder and heritor, was a qualified judge of all who frequented his house, and therefore I could not avoid again tying the strings of my knees."
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