female heir
Woman receiving legacy
A female heir is a woman or girl who stands to inherit property, title, or position.
The phrase is often redundant since heir applies to any gender, but it appears when sex is legally or contextually relevant—historically, inheritance laws often distinguished between male and female heirs, with males taking precedence: The estate passed to a female heir only when no sons survived.
- daughterFemale child of parents
- crown princessFemale successor to throne
- princessMonarch's daughter or heir
- next in linePositioned to succeed immediately
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
birthright · succession · throne · estate · estate planning · legacy · fortune · trust fund · dowry · lineage · royal bloodline · firstborn · dynasty · noblewoman · patrimony · crown · title holder · bloodline
- inheritanceinheritance, inheritances, bequest, bequests, beneficiary
- royal successionthrone, succession, line of succession, order of succession, succession line
- successionline of succession, primogeniture, successor, predecessor, next in line
- Islamic Inheritanceestate division, half brother, paternal uncle, agnatic succession, shares
- Royal Heirscrown prince, crown princess, next in line, successor, second in line