heritor
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I don't speak in favour of the population generally, more than I would do in favour of the merchant, or of the heritor, were it not for the truth.
From Second Shetland Truck System Report by William Guthrie
Appanage of time put in your keeping For my far-off heritor to hear.
From Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen by Thomas Buford Meteyard
His principal heritor was the Lord Elphinstone of the time, and unfortunately the minister and the peer were not on good terms, and always ready to annoy each other by sharp sayings or otherwise.
From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay
In case o' failure, I fixed upon twa—May Walker, the dochter o' Gilbert Walker, an auld cattle-dealer, wha rented Langacres frae a chief heritor; and Agnes Lowrie, the dochter o' Benjamin Lowrie, feuar o' Muirbank.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Alexander Leighton
So you see, madam, this gentleman is the true and sole heritor of all the land that your father possesses, with all the rents thereof for the last twenty years, and upwards.
From The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
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