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▪ I. heirship|ˈɛəʃɪp|
[f. heir n. + -ship.]
1. The state, condition, or rights of an heir; right of inheritance; inheritance.
1478[see 2]. c1575Balfour's Practicks (1754) 231 Gif he hes takin or ressavit airschip of ony movabill gudis pertening to his predecessour. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 224 He came into England, purposely to resign up his Heirship of his Estate at Sherburn. 1757W. Thompson R.N. Advoc. 56 They are reported to have been..driven from their..legal Heirship. 1884Chitty in Law Rep. 26 Ch. Div. 546 The only heirship there referred to was the heirship to the Earldom.
b. fig. (Cf. heritage.)
1697C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 210 To set up their Heirship to any Kingdom they please; when their King (the Son of God) Commands them. 1816Byron Parisina xiii, I could not claim The lawful heirship of thy name. 1833Medwin in Fraser's Mag. VII. 33 What is the lot of man But misery?—'tis the heirship of his birth.
†2. heirship movables, heirship goods (Sc. Law), the best of certain kinds of movable goods (such as furniture, horses, cows, farming utensils, etc.), belonging to his predecessor, which the heir was entitled to take besides the heritable estate. Obs. (The right was abolished in 1868 by Act 31–2 Vict. c. 101.)
1478Act. Dom. Conc. 15 (Jam.) Ony accioun..for herage of landis, or movable gudis of areschip pertening to ane are. c1575Balfour's Practicks (1754) 236 Ane bastard may not be ane air, nor crave airschip gudis. a1646Sir T. Hope Minor Practicks (1734) 538. 1838 Erskine's Inst. Law Scotland 834 The heirship-movables fall also to the eldest [heir-portioner] alone. 1861W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 421 Heirship Moveables are the moveables to which the heir in heritage is entitled, in order that he may not succeed to a house and land completely dismantled.
▪ II. heirship
var. of hership Obs., devastation. |