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heir-at-law

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Noun1.heir-at-law - the person legally entitled to inherit the property of someone who dies intestate
heir, heritor, inheritor - a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another


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Her father was heir-at-law to a great estate that had long lain unknown of, unclaimed, and accumulating.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
that so far as we know, none of the papers were removed, and that the prisoner is the one man in the world who had no reason for removing them, since he was heir-at-law, and would come into them in any case.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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