Heir Presumptive
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The person who, if the ancestor should die immediately, would, in the present cireumstances of things, be his heir, but whose right of inheritance may be defeated by the contingency of sone nearer lieir being born; as a brother or nephew, whose presumptive succession may be destroyed by the birth of a child.
2 Bl. Comm. 208; 1 Steph. Comm. 358.