heritor
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Compare Latin herator, from Latin heres (“an heir”).
Noun[edit]
heritor (plural heritors)
- A person who inherits; an heir or heiress.
- (Scots law) A proprietor or landholder in a parish.
- 1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 87:
- The printed statement reads (abridged in parts):—
"To the Interested HERITORS in the Counties of Mid-Lothian, Roxburgh, Selkirk, and Berwick. […]
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Translations[edit]
heritor — see heir