heirship

• They had accused him—and convicted him—of trying to kill for the heirship to the title and the fortune and for Henrietta. —  Mary Balogh - Heartless
• It thus becomes impossible to stop the flow of blood from a cut, and one who has inherited hćmophilia usually dies sooner or later from hćmorrhage HEREDITY (heirship), is usually considered from the outside, when it may properly be defined as organic resemblance based on descent, or the correlation between relatives. —  Applied Eugenics
• This kind of heirship is independent of the ties of kindred, independent of succession from parents, and requires nothing else save only power to utter the speech of the fatherland This is the privilege which, as the African asserts, was of old bestowed on his race. —  The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
• At one time she had feared her father might promote Kate Dancox to the heirship, and grew to dislike the child accordingly. —  The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891
• He was a very distant relative of Louis, going away back to St. Louis for his heirship to the French crown. —  When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth

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