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Noun: heir-at-law (heirs-at-law)
  1. The person legally entitled to inherit the property of someone who dies intestate
    "In the absence of a will, the court determined the heir-at-law"

Derived forms: heirs-at-law

Type of: distributee [US], heir, heritor, inheritor

Encyclopedia: Heir-at-law