Natural Heir Law and Legal Definition
Natural heir is an heir whose status as an heir arises from close blood relationship. Natural heirs or heirs of the body are distinguished from those entitled to succeed on intestacy. As the term is used in a will: -- sometimes a term of limitation, sometimes the equivalent of issue or simply denoting certain individuals, sometimes meaning bodily heirs, the construction depending upon the context of the instrument and the surrounding circumstances. Sometimes the term natural heir means children, thereby excluding collateral heirs.
Legal Definition list
Related Legal Terms
- Affidavit of Heirship
- Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Project
- Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal
- Bodily Heirs
- Certificate of Naturalization
- Charge to Enter Heir
- Conventional Heir
- County Program Committee [Natural Resources Conservation Service]
- Eligible Heirs
- Emergency Natural Gas
