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heir-at-law

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

  2. [also: heirs-at-law (pl)]

Usage examples of "heir-at-law".

His boy preceded him to the grave, leaving, as confiscations had gone out of fashion by that time, his uncle heir-at-law, again, to the same property that he had conferred on himself.