An heir; a person entitled to share in the distribution of au estate.This term is admissible to denote one of the persons who are entitled, under the statuteof distributions, to the personal estate of one who is dead intestate. Henry v. Ilenry, 31N. C. 27S; Kitchen v. Southern lty., 68 S. C. 554, 48 S. E. 4.
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