legitimate heir

collocation in English

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legitimate
adjective
uk
/ləˈdʒɪt.ə.mət/us
/ləˈdʒɪt̬.ə.mət/
allowed ...
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heir
noun
uk
/eər/us
/er/
a person who will legally receive money, property, or a title from another person, especially an older member of the same family, when that other ...
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(Definition oflegitimateandheirfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Out of these sunless, gloomy epochs the first ancestor emerged to found the divine dynasty that eventually produced this young man, the onlylegitimateheirto the throne.
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According to this clause that son will be legitimate: he will be thelegitimateheirof the father, although there has been no marriage between him and the second woman.
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In both versions he was thelegitimateheirapparent and as such a potential danger to his usurper uncle.
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As he left nolegitimateheir, the title became extinct.
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He accepted a peerage, but later changed his mind, presumably because he had nolegitimateheir.
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Thelegitimateheirregains his position even though he is at that moment not aware of his rights to the throne.
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The emperor, hitherto a bachelor, began quickly to look for a wife to produce alegitimateheir.
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Isabelle was then left as thelegitimateheirto the throne.
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Because of this, she is the onlylegitimateheirand owner of the tobacco lands and thus, she can undo the sale of the lands to the developer.
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Through purchase these parties alienated property so it could not be returned to its legitimate heirs.
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Some schools and masters claim to be the onlylegitimateheirof the art, but ninjutsu is not centralized like modernized martial arts such as judo or karate.
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Gurun's knights become concerned that if he does not marry a noblewoman for the sake of alegitimateheir, his lands and lineage will be lost upon his death.
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My contention is that the legitimate heirs have a right to be protected also, and that society has a right to be protected.
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I regret that, on grounds of constitutional law, it is not possible after the artist's death to restrict the benefit of resale rights to his or her legitimate heirs.
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Adopted children receive all the inheritance rights of natural children and are considered legitimate heirs in all cases.
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Boran and her sister were considered to be the only two legitimate heirs left of the royal family.
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Also, succession is limited to legitimate heirs, precluding a claim to the throne by children born out of wedlock.
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He had no legitimate heirs of his own.
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The division among the legitimate heirs is on an equal basis, but only the sons are regarded as genuine heirs....
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As he never married, he produced no legitimate heirs despite having a surviving child.
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