Heir

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To Inherit; to succeed to.

II. Heir ·noun One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues.

III. Heir ·noun One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter.

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