heritor

English

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Etymology

Compare Latin herator, from Latin heres (“an heir”).

Noun

heritor (plural heritors)

  1. A person who inherits; an heir or heiress.
  2. (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
heritor — see heir

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