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HEIR-AT-LAW
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Irregular inflected form: heirs-at-law
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The person legally entitled to inherit the property of someone who dies intestate
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Hypernyms ("heir-at-law" is a kind of...):
heir; heritor; inheritor (a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another)