HEIR-AT-LAW (heirs-at-law)

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Irregular inflected form: heirs-at-law   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does heir-at-law mean? 

• HEIR-AT-LAW (noun)
  The noun HEIR-AT-LAW has 1 sense:

1. the person legally entitled to inherit the property of someone who dies intestate

  Familiarity information: HEIR-AT-LAW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEIR-AT-LAW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The person legally entitled to inherit the property of someone who dies intestate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("heir-at-law" is a kind of...):

heir; heritor; inheritor (a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another)

 Context examples 

Just notice this point, Mr. Holmes: that so far as we know, none of the papers were removed, and that the prisoner is the one man in the world who had no reason for removing them, since he was heir-at-law, and would come into them in any case.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)