Heritor

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Heritor \Her"it*or\, n. [Cf. LL. her?ator, fr. L. heres an
     heir.]
     A proprietor or landholder in a parish. [Scot.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  heritor
       n : a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to
           inherit the estate of another [syn: {heir}, {inheritor}]