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
Some appeals are still pending from people whose claims of heirship were rejected earlier.
From The Guardian ● May 19, 2017
In many tribes there would have been no question about the election of Oshkosh, for he was the son of Old King's daughter; but the Menominees did not recognize any heirship except through sons.
From Stories of the Badger State by Thwaites, Reuben Gold
