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