lawful heir

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• lawful — lawful, legal, legitimate, licit mean permitted, sanctioned, or recognized by law or the law. Lawful differs from the others in implying a reference to various sorts of law (as divine law, natural law, or the law of the land, or as civil law,… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• lawful — lawfully, adv. lawfulness, n. /law feuhl/, adj. 1. allowed or permitted by law; not contrary to law: a lawful enterprise. 2. recognized or sanctioned by law; legitimate: a lawful marriage; a lawful heir. 3. appointed or recognized by law; legally …   Universalium

• lawful — law•ful [[t]ˈlɔ fəl[/t]] adj. 1) law allowed by law: a lawful enterprise[/ex] 2) law sanctioned by law; legitimate: a lawful heir[/ex] 3) law appointed or recognized by law; legally qualified: a lawful king[/ex] 4) acting or living according to… …   From formal English to slang

• heir — / ar/ n: one who inherits or is entitled to succeed to the possession of property after the death of its owner: as a: one who by operation of law inherits the property and esp. the real property of a person who dies without leaving a valid will… …   Law dictionary

• legal heir — lawful heir, one who inherits or is legally entitled to inherit …   English contemporary dictionary

• last heir — In English law, he to whom lands come by escheat for want of lawful heirs; that is, in some cases, the lord of whom the lands were held; in others, the sovereign …   Black's law dictionary

• last heir — In English law, he to whom lands come by escheat for want of lawful heirs; that is, in some cases, the lord of whom the lands were held; in others, the sovereign …   Black's law dictionary

• last heir — The lord of the manor, or the king, as the case might be, to whom the land of the tenant, upon his death, escheated for want of lawful heirs …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• Line of succession to the Tongan throne — The order of succession to the throne of Tonga is laid down in the 1875 constitution of the south Pacific island nation. This constitution specifies that the succession is confined to the descendants of King Siaosi Tāufaokinaāhau Tupou I, through …   Wikipedia

• Jacobite succession — The Jacobite succession is the line through which the crown in pretence has descended since the flight of James II VII from London at the time of the Glorious Revolution. James and his Jacobite successors were traditionally toasted as The King… …   Wikipedia

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