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Apparent Heir

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

In English law

One whose right of inheritance is indefeasible, provided he ^outlive the ancestor.

2BI, Com. 208.

See Heir.

See Heir.

In Scotch law

One who is entitied to enter heir to a deceased ancestor, before actual entry. Ersk. Inst. b.

3, tit. 8, § 64. 1 Forhes' Inst, part 3, b. 2, ch. 3.