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heir
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heir
A person who by will or statutory law receives or is scheduled to receive a portion or all of the assets of an estate.

heir

One who inherits property.



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25, 5-10) detailing the responsibility of a man to produce a male heir by the widow of his deceased heirless brother.
[91] A component of West Germany's payments to Israel and world Jewry under the terms of the Luxembourg Treaty of 1952, also known as the Shilumim Agreement, was intended to cover payment for collective Jewish claims involving heirless communal property lost during World War II and the Holocaust.
The marriage is described not as a union, as was the Fairfax/Vere marriage, but rather as the smaller severance that the heirless Fairfaxes must endure in the hope of staving off a greater one.
 
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