Heiress: alternatives and connections

The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee.

A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee.

Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share.

accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept their power and authority; "The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the…

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be…

One of a fabulous race of female warriors in Scythia; hence, a female warrior.

One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir.

An opposition or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, "The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himse…

The position of being heir apparent.

An heir apparent.

An Anglo-Saxon prince or nobleman; esp., the heir apparent or a prince of the royal family.

Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir.

A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger…

Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil…

A joint heir; one of two or more heirs; one of several entitled to an inheritance.

A female heir who inherits with other heiresses; a joint heiress.

The right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally…

The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.