heretor

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A form of heritor — A person who inherits; an heir or heiress.

Scrabble 10

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nounheretor (plural heretors)

plural heretors

  1. alternativeAlternative form of heritor.

    James Clerk in Rivoch, heretor in Walls, 40mks. val., 1lib 6sh;

    1890 (published), Archæological and Historical Collections Relating to the County of Renfrew, volume II, Paisley: Alexander Gardner, page 195
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    […]Heretors or Proprietors of Lands within the Pariſh of Avendale[…]

    1730, Journals of the House of Lords, page 634

    18. Item—Adams decreet against Laird Chaip, heretor of the land where this annual is gotten. 27th Jan. 1570.

    1865 (published), Charles Fraser-Mackintosh, Antiquarian Notes: A Series of Papers Regarding Families and Places in the Highlands, Inverness: […], page 280

    […]marying the Lady Beochamps, and he became heritor of Lochow by marying the foresd Evah heretrix therof (his eldest brother Dionysius having remained in ffrance as heretor of Campus bellus or Beochamps as was formerly marked.

    1916 (published), Publications of the Scottish History Society, page 81

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