legal heir
Example Sentences
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By Wednesday, officials had issued a death certificate and legal heir documents, and the bank said the money had been handed over to the woman's family members.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
If there is a will and it can be found, you have many rights, assuming you are a legal heir.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 4, 2025
There’s bound to be talk when Gonzalo Rodríguez de Tejeda, the rich Spanish godfather of Brunetti’s wife, Paola, adopts his lover and makes the young man his legal heir.
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2019
Given the lack of any legal heir, Josephina, Morf, and Rhodora are all fully ready to lie about how they acquired his work, and take full advantage of its instant popularity.
From The Verge • Feb. 1, 2019
He could not even hope, in the event of his uncle’s death, to inherit the old Bront� home and restore its fallen fortunes, for a legal heir was now in full possession.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, August, 1893 by Various
