An heir by right of representation. [ Law ]

The absent one will not be the heir. [ Proverb ]

The fork is commonly the rake's heir. [ Proverb ]

Dear son of memory, great heir of fame. [ Milton on Shakespeare ]

Land was never lost for want of an heir. [ Proverb ]

My inheritance how wide and fair!
Time is my seed-field, to Time I'm heir. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor. [ William Shakespeare ]

To die, - to sleep, -
No more; - and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to. [ William Shakespeare ]

The prodigal robes the heir, the miser himself. [ Proverb ]

Creation's heir, the world, the world, is mine. [ Goldsmith ]

The weeping of an heir is laughter under a mask. [ Proverb ]

A rich man is an unjust man, or the heir of one. [ Proverb ]

I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The prodigal robs his heir, the miser robs himself. [ La Bruyère ]

He is the lawful heir whom marriage points out as such. [ Law ]

A third heir seldom enjoys what it dishonestly acquired. [ Juv ]

He is no great heir that inherits not his ancestor's virtue. [ Proverb ]

Let an ill man lie in thy straw and he looks to be thy heir. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir. [ Tac ]

That patient is not like to recover who makes the doctor his heir. [ Proverb ]

A sick man acts foolishly for himself who makes his doctor his heir.

Perpetual possession is allowed to none, and one heir succeeds another, as wave follows wave. [ Horace ]

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue. [ Victor Hugo ]

Phaeton was his father's heir; born to attain the highest fortune without earning it; he had built no sun-chariot (could not build the simplest wheel-barrow), but could and would insist on driving one; and so broke his own stiff neck, sent gig and horses spinning through infinite space, and set the universe on fire. [ Carlyle ]

As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may more properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame. [ Sterne ]