HEIR-AT-LAW

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: heirs-at-law   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The person legally entitled to inherit the property of someone who dies intestate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("heir-at-law" is a kind of...):

heir; heritor; inheritor (a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another)

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