The Heir at Law (1797) is a comedic play in five acts by George Colman the Younger that remained popular through the 19th century. It and John Bull (1803)...

The Heirs (Korean: 왕관을 쓰려는 자, 그 무게를 견뎌라 – 상속자들), also known as The Inheritors, is a South Korean television series starring Lee Min-ho, Park Shin-hye,...

In English law, heirs of the body is the principle that certain types of property pass to a descendant of the original holder, recipient or grantee according...

An heir presumptive is the person entitled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honour, but whose position can be displaced by the birth of...

corporate leader. This article primarily describes the term heir apparent in a hereditary system regulated by laws of primogeniture—it may be less applicable...

Heirs property, or heirs' property, refers to property that is passed between generations of family members without the involvement of local probate courts...

D., Corpus Juris Secundum, Descent and Distribution § 35 (2015) HEIR, Black's Law Dictionary (10th ed. 2014). For example, In re Auclair's Estate, 75...

In law, an "heir" (FEM: heiress) is a person who is entitled to receive a share of property from a decedent (a person who died), subject to the rules...

some very specific misconduct by the forced heir. In matters of cross-border inheritance, the "laws of succession" is the commonplace term covering testate...

Heir and spare, or the heir and the spare, is a term referring to first-born and second-born children, usually male, in patrilineal inheritance systems...

case of extinction of heirs of the body, depending on the succession rules. These concepts are in use in English inheritance law. Main concepts for hereditary...

haplogroup Salic law Ferrer Alòs, Llorenç (2005). "When there was no male heir: The transfer of wealth through women in Catalonia (The pubilla)". Continuity...

character in the 1759 novel Candide by Voltaire Dr. Peter Pangloss, a fictional character in the 1797 play The Heir at Law by George Colman the Younger Pangloss...

receive the property are called successors, heirs or legatees, depending on their position in the de cujus succession. The first traces of inheritance law in...

circumvent the Common Law's strict rules of succession. Under these rules land was not devisable by will but was instead always inherited by the heir-at-law. Uses...

by the tenant-in-possession, and instead causes it to pass automatically, by operation of law, to an heir determined by the settlement deed. The terms...

nights at the Strand Theatre, and two roles from plays by George Colman "the Younger": Dr. Pangloss in The Heir at Law, and Dr. Ollapod in The Poor Gentleman...

missing heir may be an orphan or other person under a disability, who may need a guardian or custodian of funds. Missing heirs often come up in the context...

for example, a forced heir receives at least half of what they would have received in the absence of a testament. In Islamic law, as practiced for example...

In the law of property, a pretermitted heir is a person who would likely stand to inherit under a will, except that the testator (the person who wrote...

The civil law on intestacy was laid down in the Twelve Tables. Property went first to sui heredes ("his own heirs"), who were any children of the deceased...

replaced with the title of Crown Prince, who became heir apparent to the throne. In 1924, King Vajiravudh (Rama VI) promulgated the 1924 Palace Law of Succession...

The following is a list of the heirs to the throne of the Kingdom of France, that is, those who were legally next in line to assume the throne upon the...

considered an heir at law of the grantee and the inheritance may not pass to someone who is not a natural, lawful descendant or relative of the grantee. Collateral...

both principal heir at law and nominal head of the former German princely House of Thurn and Taxis according to the traditional rules of the legal affairs...

the Emperor had the right to name his or her own successor. All heirs in this period were nominated by the reigning monarch, rather than holding the position...

will away from the estate. If the owner died intestate, it went to his heir-at-law, and if he devised the estate it went to the devisee. The word subsequently...

automatically upon the heir-at-law, usually based upon primogeniture. The incumbent has no right to designate a successor to the title. Several websites...

an emperor nor his heir had an inherent "right" to rule, and did so through military power and the Senate's symbolic consent. The law of primogeniture in...

result in denial of inheritance rights to the donor's heir including women heirs. Government property as waqf: The Bill states that any government property...