heritor
One who inherits
A heritor is one who inherits—an heir.
The word appears primarily in Scottish legal and ecclesiastical contexts, where heritors were landowners responsible for maintaining parish churches and schools.
Outside these technical uses, heritor is rare and literary, displaced by the more common heir: The heritors of the estate gathered for the reading of the will.
Recipient of bequest
- deviseeBeneficiary of bequeathed property
- granteeReceiver of awarded funds
- beneficiaryDesignated asset receiver
- claimantOne asserting entitlement
donee · successor · cestui que trust · assignee · transferee · titleholder
Gift left by will
- deviseCreate through ingenuity
- testamentWritten proof or legacy
- willFaculty of deliberate choice
- probateWill validation proceedings
entailment · succession · primogeniture · intestate · codicil · descent · transmission · devolution
Property and grounds
- landholdingsOwned tracts of terrain
- realtyImmovable property ownership
- holdingsProperty one owns
- freeholdPermanent property title
tenement · manor · demesne · homestead · patrimony · heritable property · landed property · ancestral lands
Person from earlier generations
- scionHeir of prominence
- progenyOne's biological descendants
- offspringBiological descendants produced
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
dynasty · posterity · lineage · ancestry · genealogy · family line · ancestral line · direct descendant
legatee
Recipient of bequest
- deviseeBeneficiary of bequeathed property
- granteeReceiver of awarded funds
- beneficiaryDesignated asset receiver
claimant · donee · successor · cestui que trust · assignee · transferee · titleholder
bequest
Gift left by will
probate · entailment · succession · primogeniture · intestate · codicil · descent · transmission · devolution · heirship
estate
Property and grounds
- landholdingsOwned tracts of terrain
- realtyImmovable property ownership
- holdingsProperty one owns
freehold · tenement · manor · demesne · homestead · patrimony · heritable property · landed property · ancestral lands · family seat
descendant
Person from earlier generations
bloodline · dynasty · posterity · lineage · ancestry · genealogy · family line · ancestral line · direct descendant · issue
heritortestator
One who makes bequests
bequeather · decedent · grantor · donor · benefactor
heritorpredecessor
One who came first
ancestor · forebear · progenitor · antecedent · forefather
- family heritageTraditions passed through generations
- Native American heritageDescent from original Americans
- heritage preservationProtecting historical and cultural assets
- Asian heritageAncestry from Asia's peoples
- local heritagePlace-specific cultural inheritance
- cultural heritageInherited collective traditions
heritage, inherit, inheritance, inherited, inheritor, inheriting, inherits, disinherit, inheritors