0 the person with the automatic right to legally receive all or most of the money, property, titles, etc. from another person when they die: --
1 the person who is likely to control a large company or organization after the person now in charge leaves: --
He was proclaimed by his father co-ruler and heir apparent just prior to the action.
Formerly a splendid palace, it belonged to the heir apparent before falling into disrepair.
Both the empress and the heir apparent received an income from the taxes of forty counties.
Upon inquiring what their grievances were, he got the reply that the heir apparent of the lord had died, and the lord was in mourning.
In both versions he was the legitimate heir apparent and as such a potential danger to his usurper uncle.
But the rights of heirs presumptive have always been affected by legitimation under the present law, by the legitimation of a son who becomes heir apparent.
We are told that he is the heir apparent and that stalking horses are having to wait in the stables until next year when he has a little more experience.
There is an example of the heir who cannot be ascertained until death— an heir apparent and an heir presumptive.
