Definition of "heirs" []

• Plural form of heir. (noun)

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• "Should she die first without heirs, the property was secured to the _heirs and assignes of the said Thomas Nash_, a reversion certainly not fair to Joan Hart, the poet's sister, and her children."
• "I., a tenant in fee simple might grant lands to be holden by the grantee and his heirs _of the grantor and his heirs_, subject to feudal services and to escheat; and by such subinfeudation manors were created."
• "It may be further observed, that in the preamble to the Great Charter it is stipulated that the barons shall _hold_ the liberties there granted _to them and their heirs, from the king and his heirs_; which shows that the doctrine of an unalienable tenure was always uppermost in their minds."