heirs-at-law

Otherwise la Grande Breteche reverts to the heirs-at-law, but on condition of fulfilling certain conditions set forth in a codicil to the will, which is not to be opened till the expiration of the said term of fifty years.

La Grand Breteche 2007

Otherwise la Grande Breteche reverts to the heirs-at-law, but on condition of fulfilling certain conditions set forth in a codicil to the will, which is not to be opened till the expiration of the said term of fifty years.

La Grand Breteche 2007

A certain increase of property to the amount of 60,000l. having taken place since the date of his will, a suit was instituted by the heirs-at-law to recover the same; in which, I am happy to say, they were successful.

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

Possibly, if these individuals had lived a little longer, they might have passed the border-line which separates mental soundness from mental unsoundness; but certainly, up to the period of their deaths, both would have been pronounced sane by all competent laymen and alienists with whom they might have been brought into contact; and the contest of their wills, by any heirs-at-law, would assuredly have been a fruitless undertaking.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 Various

There can, we think, be little doubt that both passages -- the depressed and the hopeful -- refer to a claim over Edward's Hampshire property made by some of the heirs-at-law of the former Knight family whom the

Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh

They feared that between the brief period of time which would necessarily intervene between the annulment of the old Charter and the passing of the new, the heirs-at-law of James McGill might, even at that late date, claim that the College no longer existed in fact, and that they were entitled to the estate.

McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 Cyrus MacMillan 1916

In reality, however, the members used the "joint tenancy" merely to control the disposition of the shares, and they always allowed the heirs-at-law to receive the share of a deceased member.

Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration Joseph Quincy Adams 1913

My father was dead; he died a few months after I had gone to France; and those murderers had advanced a claim that through my marriage with their cousin, since dead, and through my own death, there being no next of kin, they were the heirs-at-law.

The Tavern Knight Rafael Sabatini 1912

"It certainly belongs to the heirs-at-law of the late Mr. Seton," he declared.

A harum-scarum schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907

Lord Chancellor; and a marriage with royalty made descendants of the family on more than one occasion heirs-at-law of the Crown.

Mediaeval Socialism Bede Jarrett 1907