Always ready to bind, the heirs of Saint Peter have shewn themselves extremely averse to the more humane office of loosing on earth, except when it served the purposes of gain or ambition.
Conquest subsequently raised him to the throne of Naples; and, lastly, the failure of direct heirs to his brother Ferdinand VI.
Fit for the Heirsof that State I shall leave 'em; To say more, is to sell 'em.
To entail him and his heirs unto the crown, What is it but to make thy sepulchre And creep into it far before thy time?
All the officers of the kingdom were summoned to do homage to their new princess; all correspondence with Poland prohibited, and the edicts of previous monarchs against the heirs of Sigismund, confirmed by a solemn act of the nation.
If we are His children, then we are His heirs, and joint heirs with Christ.
Parliament was to legitimize them all, declaring them royal children of France, and the country was to provide titles, dignities, and royal rent-rolls for them and their heirs forever.
Chalusse's sudden death, it was much less than he might obtain if he succeeded in discovering the unknown heirs to so many millions.
Imagining that the count's heirs had been lost sight of, he had determined to find them and make a bargain with them, before they learned that they were worth their millions.
But on the contrary, these heirs were close at hand, watching M.
The heirs whom he hated so bitterly, and whom I don't even know, whose existence people have not even suspected, can now come, and they will find the wealth he was determined to deprive them of intact.
Very well, madame; but it often happens that the court institutes inquiries for the heirs of large fortunes, and this may happen in your case.
The hunter of missingheirs at once climbed inside; but it was not until the carriage had left the courtyard that the landlord returned to his office.
He manages the property and remits the income to the Treasury until a legal judgment declares the estate the property of the country, regardless of any heirs who may present themselves in future.
The seeker after lost heirs and his clerk were served at a little table near the door; and while they partook of the classical beef-steak and; potatoes--M.
Few people have any idea of the great number of estates which, in default of heirs to claim them, annually revert to the government.
An inventory is taken, and after a few formalities, as no heirs present themselves, the court declares the inheritance to be in abeyance, and appoints a trustee.
I have been poor, but I have never turned to anything at Melcombe with one thought that it could mend my case; and as I have renounced it for myself, I would fain renounce it for my heirs for ever.
She saw the whole meaning of the situation; for this estate had come to her through the failure of heirs male to her father, and it was the provision of his will that she and her heirs should take back his name--the name of Melcombe.
Men long dead, if they were represented by rich descendants, were cited before the tribunal, judged, and condemned; and the lands and goods that had descended to their heirs passed into the coffers of the Catholic kings.
As one of the heirs of Sir John de Hastings, who sat in the Parliament of 18th Edward I.
It was decided, that the mother, sister, and brother were the rightful heirs to the Sultan Mahal; and the amount was distributed among them according to Mahommedan law.
He never confiscated the estates of any good and faithful servants, who left lawful heirs to their property.
By this deed the stipends are to descend to the heirs of the pensioners, if they have any; and if they have none, they can bequeath their pensions to whom they please.
What an abode for men and women who had been made by God kings and priests--the heirs of heaven!
A conduct of angels: "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
Above all, when we inquire as to our personal title to the heavenly mansions--Am I one of the heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ?
How do the heirs to immortality conduct themselves in such a prospect?
Therefore it is not unfit that the minister call the baptized, regenerate and pardoned members of Christ, and children of God, and heirs of heaven, supposing that in foro ecclesiae they were the due subjects of baptism.
It is part of the appointed work of angels, to be ministering spirits for the heirs of salvation, Heb.
With what humility do they condescend to minister for the heirs of salvation!
It was addressed to the heirs of Roger Prime, of Batavia, and Roger Prime was my father.
We did; and we also advertised for theheirs of Roger Prime, of Batavia, New York.
Because I saw in a Cleveland newspaper an advertisement of the same nature, addressed to the heirs of the body of Clarissa Millington, born Bradford.
With his own hand he drew up the draft of a will which, amended at Northumberland’s bidding, left the crown in unmistakable terms to Lady Jane and her heirs male.
It happened, finally, that all the other Jarndyce heirs had died except two, a young girl named Ada Clare and a young man named Richard Carstone.
Sometimes it has kept cases undecided for many years, till the heirs concerned were dead and gone; and often when the decision came at last there was no money left to be divided, because it had all been eaten up by the costs of the suit.
Those who began it were long since dead and their heirs either knew nothing of it or had given up hope of its ever being ended.
Our panels were purchased many years ago from the heirs of the Borgherini.
All great men who foreknew Their heirs in art, for art's sake have been glad.
Upon his death his two sons and his younger brother, Benedetto, continued the work of his studio, signing the works which they produced in common as "heirs of Paolo Caliari Veronese.
These cases were therefore subject to the jurisdiction of the ordinary courts, unless it were shown that there were heirs in Spain.
They should not usually have authority to settle up the estates or property of native clerics, because their heirs would presumably be present.
Thence it was distributed among the heirs in various parts of Spain, or, in case no heirs were found, it was to remain in a fund by itself, until otherwise appropriated or disposed of by the crown.
This law provided that if children or descendants were left whose legitimacy was unquestioned, the heirs being in the colony, or if a will legally attested and witnessed were left, the case was to be settled in the ordinary courts.
One noted case may be cited in which the heirs of Governor Fausto Cruzat y Gongora in 1703 brought suit to recover money owed by Gaspar Sanchez and Bernardo de Guiros to the ex-governor.
The lady had died, however, and as there were no heirs apparent, the money was ordered transferred to the royal treasury (A.
A similar case was brought by the children and heirs of Governor Bustamante against Juan de Nebra, general of the galleon.
The juez de difuntos, on the ground that Sarrio had left heirs in Spain, contended that the funds should be administered by him, as the executor did not have authority to transmit the property to Spain.
But his property was seized and his heirs were fined; aside, however, from the removal of various of Fajardo's subordinates, the government was but little better for the protestations and appeals made by the audiencia.
The authority accorded them frequently afforded pretexts for their intervention in cases which should have been settled by the juez de difuntos, particularly when heirs were left in Spain and in other colonies.
Mr. Dalrymple called up the otherheirs and the children's guardian.
And again he says, "Heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heirs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
