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heir presumptive

an heir whose right to a certain property or title will be lost if someone more closely related to the ancestor is born before that ancestor dies

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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