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- noun Plural form of
coheir .
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Examples
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And were not these others, these unfortunate and crippled brothers whom you cast out, joint inheritors, coheirs with you?
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They report, that the whole of his estate scarce amounted to three hundred and seventy thousand drachmas; to which he left his two sons coheirs; but Scipio, who was the youngest, being adopted into the more wealthy family of
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Christ is Lord, and whose coming we expect ere long to judge the living and dead; who will render to every one according to his works; who hath poured forth abundantly on us both the gift of His Spirit and the pledge of immortality; who makes the faithful and obedient to become the sons of God and coheirs with Christ; whom we confess and adore one
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The _Earl of Aboyne_, are the coheirs of Sir Charles Cope, Baronet, of Orton; who represented Arabella, Countess of Sunderland, third coheir.
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[23] That is, the judicial division of an estate by a _iudex_ among the disagreeing coheirs.
The Twelve Tables Anonymous
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He had a kind of feeling that this his first illness was a matter in which the universe should be concerned, and with that fretful self-exaggeration came that other unutterable yearning that attends the first proof that we are coheirs with others to the ills flesh is heir to, weary homesickness and childish desire for sympathy.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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His three sisters became coheirs, but the estate of Gunthwaite went to an uncle, ancestor of the present Godfrey Bosvile, Lord
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By Jane, daughter of Sir John Fogge, Knt., he left issue two daughters and coheirs:
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Their son, _George Burdett_, had by his first wife a son, whose issue failed; and by his second wife two daughters, eventually coheirs.
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In the latter work, in vol. iii., the inquirer will also find an account of William Malbedeng or Malbanc, his estates, his descendant coheirs, and their several subdivisions, extending from p. 217. to p. 222., under the proper head of Nantwich or _Wich Malbanc_, a still existing Palatine barony.
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