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1714 J. Swift Some Free Thoughts upon Present State Affairs (1741) 29 Scruples artificially raised in the Mind of the expectant Heir.

1875 Law Rep.: Chancery Appeal Cases 10 391/1 That peculiar position of reversioner or remainderman which is oddly enough described as an expectant heir. This phrase is used, not in its literal meaning, but as including..every one who has the hope of succession to the property of an ancestor.

1947 Michigan Law Rev. 45 268 Their special prey was the expectant heir or reversioner, in urgent need of ready cash but precluded from borrowing at moderate rates of interest by the uncertainty of his prospects.

2013 P. J. Barrett Summary Judgment in Ireland ii. 96 An expectant heir who had recently attained his majority sold his reversionary interest in an estate in Mayo to a well-informed buyer for two-thirds of its value.