heritor

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Hemingway and Dos Passos in the first world war; Mailer, Heller, Jones and Vonnegut in the second world war; O’Brien, Herr and Marlantes in Vietnam: they’re all heritors of Bierce.

From The Guardian • May 28, 2016

A hundred years later and their heritors in sorrow are crying still.

From The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by Hutchinson, J. R. (John Robert)

The Privy Council meanwhile called out the militia, and ordered all the heritors and freeholders to join with the Regulars in putting down the insurrection.

From Hunted and Harried by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

The presbytery may interfere to compel the heritors to provide due accommodation, but has no further jurisdiction.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various

The guardianship of the churchyard belongs to the heritors and also to the kirk-session, either by delegation from the heritors, or in right of its ecclesiastical character.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various