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  1. Heirs

    Inheritance is the practice of receiving private property, titles, debts, entitlements, privileges, rights, and obligations upon the death of an individual. The rules of inheritance differ among societies and have changed over time. Officially bequeathing private property and/or debts can be performed by a testator via will, as attested by a notary or by other lawful means.

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  1. hi-res

  2. hires

  3. Sheri

  4. shier

  5. shire

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of heirs in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of heirs in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of heirs in a Sentence

  1. Robert Willens:

    It is not advisable for a man of Murdoch's age to engage in a taxable sale of his property, if he passed away while still owning the property, his heirs would achieve a basis step-up for the property, thus eliminating, forever, any capital gains tax on the appreciation in the assets that accrued during the scions' lifetime.

  2. Karl Kraus:

    Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.

  3. Alan Watts:

    Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

  4. Professor Howe:

    Ptolemy and his heirs worked diligently to ensure that Alexanders city became even greater, both in myth and reality.

  5. Dwight D. Eisenhower:

    Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

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