Legal Definition of Heir

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Heir: A beneficiary of a will or an intestacy.

Initially, at common law, a heir referred to a person who took real property of a deceased as a result of an intestate estate.

But the term has evolved to refer generically to any person who in-her-its from an estate - the whole line of descent of the testator - whether it be real property or chattels, intestate or pursuant to a will.

REFERENCES:

Re Rynard 1980 DLR 530

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