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Definition of Heir presumptive
1. Noun. A person who expects to inherit but whose right can be defeated by the birth of a nearer relative.
Definition of Heir presumptive
1. Noun. (usually monarchy) Someone who will inherit only if no better choice for an heir is born. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heir Presumptive
Literary usage of Heir presumptive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, James Cockcroft, Lucius Polk McGehee, Charles Porterfield (1904)
"Heir Apparent and heir presumptive. — Before the ancestor's death the person who
is next in the line of succession is called an heir apparent or heir ..."
2. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"At all events, converted or unconverted, the Scotch people had set their minds
so strongly on her recognition as heir presumptive to England that Randolph ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1828)
"It was then quite clear that there was in fact no superior scale of income,
established, or even recognized, by precedent, for an heir presumptive, ..."
4. A Treatise on Wills by Thomas Jarman, Melville Madison Bigelow (1881)
"(«) Difference between an heir apparent and heir presumptive. —The reader scarcely
need be reminded of the difference between an heir apparent and an heir ..."
5. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1847)
"... the Duke of York, now the heir presumptive to the throne, entertained an
opinion, if possible, more adverse to their claims than his father's. ..."
6. Curious Questions in History, Literature, Art, and Social Life: Designed as by Sarah Hutchins Killikelly (1900)
"There is some confusion as to the difference between an "heir apparent" and
an "heir presumptive" to a throne. In point of law the heir is the party who ..."
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