heritor

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Among the persons drawn to Baldarroch by these occurrences were the heritor, the minister, and all the elders of the Kirk, under whose superintendence an investigation was immediately commenced.

From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Mackay, Charles

"Ye'll hae nae want o' thae sma' heritor creatures after ye, dame," said he, as he condescended to sit down by the blushing widow.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various

So you see, madam, this gentleman is the true and sole heritor of all the land that your father possesses, with all the rents thereof for the last twenty years, and upwards.

From The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by Hogg, James

In case o' failure, I fixed upon twa—May Walker, the dochter o' Gilbert Walker, an auld cattle-dealer, wha rented Langacres frae a chief heritor; and Agnes Lowrie, the dochter o' Benjamin Lowrie, feuar o' Muirbank.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander

She was the heritor of lawless, self-willed, passionate ancestors.

From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod