A female heir, especially to vast wealth:an oil heiressshe was heiress to a $32 million textile fortune...
Of course, it is not obligatory for young heirs and heiresses to make headlines for all the wrong reasons.
He not only had offices at his disposal, he also had heirs, heiresses, and widows.
In medieval England, a rape law existed, but according to Anna Clark, it was primarily formulated to deal with abduction and the illicit marriage of heiresses.