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coheir

[ koh-air ]

noun

  1. a joint heir.


coheir

/ kəʊˈɛə /

noun

  1. a person who inherits jointly with others
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • coˈheiress, noun:feminine
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Other Words From

  • co·heirship noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of coheir1

1350–1400; Middle English. See co-, heir
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Example Sentences

On the same day the lord Berkeley, the other coheir, was made earl of Nottingham.

Charlotte, dau. and coheir of Sir Peter Warren, K.G., and dying in 1799, was succeeded by his son, Montague, fifth and present Earl of Abingdon, born in 1784, m.

The Dalstons were a Cumberland family, and Sir William had most probably acquired the Towthorpe estate by his marriage with Anne Bolles, the eldest daughter and coheir of that singular person, Lady Bolles of Heath Hall, the Baronetess, whose curious history is narrated in your interesting “Antiquarian Notices of Lupset, the Heath, and Sharlston.”

Or that some of the estate goes outright to her mother, as coheir?

Mary, the other daughter and coheir of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Essex, &c., as aforesaid, was married to Henry Plantagenet, Earl of Derby, eldest son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, fourth son of king Edward III., who was successively created Earl and Duke of Hereford, and ultimately ascended the throne as Henry IV., surnamed 'of Bolingbroke.'

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Cohan, George M.coheiress