heiress Значение & определение

Примери за heiress

• Likewise, though both wealthy heiresses are willfully independent, they freely redeem their neighbors' estates after the false courtship has been revealed.

• One might have expected that women who were the only child of the family to marry would, as heiresses, have married younger.

• Unlike their forerunners, they could not look to a profusion of heiresses nor to the rewards of office to propel their rise.

• In the case of heiresses, they were able to attract men to move in with them in what is often called an "uxorilocal marriage".

• According to the legislation, an heir or heiress with a larger share could buy out the others if the farm was too small to divide.

• A base action was set up in which a younger son courts an heiress for her dowry.

• Moreover, when headship passed to an heiress, it usually passed to her husband.

• However, the remaining heirs include two women and three sons-in-law, or the adopted spouses of heiresses.