heirship
Example Sentences
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That heirship hearing would ultimately reveal Taylor’s real identity and offer a window into her troubled past.
From Slate ● May 27, 2019
The documents she presented to affirm her heirship were clear forgeries.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2019
In glitzy 1889 Paris, hotelier Séverin Montagnet-Alarie’s team of teenage miscreants is helping him exact revenge against those who denied him an heirship 10 years prior.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2018
The creator of hits such as "Purple Rain" and "When Doves Cry," Prince did not leave behind a will, sparking a protracted legal battle over his estate, with dozens of people filing claims of heirship.
From Reuters ● May 19, 2017
I know my elder brother is a fearfully stately personage, who, on the strength of two years' difference of age, and his heirship, takes upon himself periodically to inflict ponderous words of wisdom upon me.
From The Curse of Carne's Hold A Tale of Adventure by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
