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countable and uncountable, plural heirships
The status of being heir to something or someone quotations examples
He began to fear lest he should be obliged to fulfil the duty of heirship to the property deposited with him.
1858, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858
When that outworn empire perished with the fall of Constantinople, Ivan succeeded nominally at least to its heirship.
1905, Editor-in-Chief: Rossiter Johnson, The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 8
"After this the family interest merely rested on heirship of the estate.
1911, Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm