coheir
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- coheiress noun
- coheirship noun
Etymology
Origin of coheir
Example Sentences
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Or that some of the estate goes outright to her mother, as coheir?
From Time Magazine Archive
Years pass, and the wild, reckless Ishmael is seen ridiculing Isaac, his puny brother and coheir.
From Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? by Allen, Isaac
His descendant became, in right of his wife, coheir of the house of Sumeri, vested in Weoley-castle.
From An History of Birmingham (1783) by Hutton, William
In Berry's "Sussex Genealogies" we find that George Ardern, son of George Ardern, born in Chester, came to Chichester, married Catharine, daughter and coheir of Robert Palmer, Esq., and had three sons—George, John, and Richard.
From Shakespeare's Family by Stopes, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael)
Sir Richard Stafford the eldest son, married Maud daughter and heir of Richard Lovell, Esq., by Elizabeth daughter and coheir of Sir Guy de Briene, knt.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton
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