noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
heir apparent
rightful heir
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the rightful heir to the throne
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
direct
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However, if a man dies without direct male heirs , his cattle will be inherited by a daughter.
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Du Pont is a direct heir to the du Pont fortune.
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When the Earl of Surrey died in 1347 he left no direct heir .
legal
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The adoption contract might contain a proviso that if a natural son was born he would take precedence as the legal heir .
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Now Jeanne Deschamps, Suzanne's sister and sole legal heir , is demanding that the painting be restored to the family.
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The boy's his legal heir .
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The financial aspirations of the legal heirs , however, frustrated any hope of compromise.
legitimate
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No, she may give me her money and my legitimate heir , and that is all.
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In all three cases the Church seems to have been trying to prevent lords from siting legitimate heirs .
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And so at last, though not happily nor of one mind, Lachlan was named as the legitimate heir of Duart.
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She is usually noble-born, and crucially, she alone is allowed to bear legitimate heirs .
male
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Where wealth is divided among both male and female heirs , the pattern of marriage is relevant.
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That is how strongly she felt about her responsibility to produce a male heir to the Kang clan.
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The succession law favouring the male heir was changed in May 1990 to give equal succession rights to both sexes.
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However, if a man dies without direct male heirs , his cattle will be inherited by a daughter.
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Late in life, King Robert had still fathered no male heir .
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Unless this occurred, the land was divided equally amongst all the male heirs , reducing the size of Catholic plots.
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This was most likely to happen if a lordship was left without an adult male heir .
rightful
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Wasn't he the rightful heir ?
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Why, for instance, does Dahlia continue to control the purse strings after Ella is revealed as the rightful heir ?
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The princes had obviously refused to select their prince as Phoenix King although he was obviously the rightful heir to Aenarion.
■ VERB
die
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However, if a man dies without direct male heirs , his cattle will be inherited by a daughter.
leave
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They can sell their timeshares, or rent them out, or even leave them to their heirs in their wills.
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William died in November 1581, leaving his son Maximilian heir to his property in Halling.
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Sigmar left no heir and his passing must have caused some apprehension amongst the people of the Empire.
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When the Earl of Surrey died in 1347 he left no direct heir .
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He left a son and heir , John, aged twenty-two, and a widow, who died in 1349.
marry
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His duty was to marry and produce an heir to the throne.
produce
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With equal grace and dispatch she produced the son and heir the Shah craved.
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That is how strongly she felt about her responsibility to produce a male heir to the Kang clan.
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At all times the social function of marriage has been to produce heirs and this their marriage had failed to do.
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His duty was to marry and produce an heir to the throne.
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Beatrice died soon after and without producing an heir .
publish
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The flat tax is the biggest plank in publishing heir Steve Forbes' platform.
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But so far, media buyers in California see no sign of the publishing heir .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Henry died a year ago, and his heirs sold the ranch.
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Reagan's political heirs
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And this was especially true for the neoconservatives who considered themselves the heirs of an abandoned tradition of postwar liberalism.
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In all three cases the Church seems to have been trying to prevent lords from siting legitimate heirs.
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In this sense, Mr Major is child and heir of Thatcherism, smile and smile as he may.
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Lieutenant Denholm is the heir to an earldom.
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Richard was now heir to the throne of the Angevin Empire.
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They want to repeal a tax the heirs of millionaires pay.
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Why was it that the men in her life seemed to have found some other woman to give them an heir ?