"inheritee" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From inherit + -ee.",
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        {
          "ref": "1869, Henry Gawen Sutton, Introductory Lecture Delivered at the London Hospital, page 19",
          "text": "It is very interesting to notice that inherited diseases usually appear at about the same age in the inheritee as they did in the person from whom they were inherited.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1979 February, Arthur De Vany, Nicolas Sanchez, “Land Tenure Structures and Fertility in Mexico”, in The Review of Economics and Statistics, volume 61, number 1, →JSTOR, page 68",
          "text": "Thus, the usufruct form of land tenure encourages parents to produce potential and heir and encourages extended families (parents living with children) as a means of facilitating transfer of the property and monitoring the prospective inheritee’s performance.",
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          "ref": "1997, Stephen T. Emlen, “Predicting Family Dynamics in Social Vertebrates”, in John R. Krebs, Nicholas B. Davies, editors, Behavioural Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach, 4th edition, page 247",
          "text": "Even in dynastic situations, where inheritance of the high-quality parental territory is favoured as the primary route to becoming a breeder, severe conflict is expected among potential inheritees.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Stuart White, “Is Conditionality Illiberal?”, in Lawrence M. Mead, Christopher Beem, editors, Welfare Reform and Political Theory, page 100",
          "text": "[…] one way of mitigating the problem would be to introduce a compulsory citizens’ service scheme in which all young people are required to provide, say, two years of service to society. […] However, this would still be a rather limited response to the problem, leaving lucky inheritees with plenty of time after citizens’ service to free ride if they wish.",
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        {
          "ref": "2021, Daniel Rhodes, Sour Grapes",
          "text": "The latest inheritee of these extraordinary eyes looked up at the angry grown-up, and the angry grown-up made the mistake of looking down at her.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Richard Masters, Rudolf Steiner and Social Reform, page 536",
          "text": "And Steiner recommends that, if the departing proprietors cannot choose a successor, then appropriately constituted facilities within the cultural sphere […] select the most able ‘inheritee’ to continue production.",
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        "Heir, inheritor; one who inherits."
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        "(uncommon) Heir, inheritor; one who inherits."
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        {
          "ref": "1791, [Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani], translated by Charles Hamilton, The Hedaya, or Guide; a Commentary on the Mussulman Laws, volume 2, page 705",
          "text": "It is a rule, that if an inheritee’s right of property in any thing be proven, still a decree cannot pass in favour of the heirs, until proof be adduced of the death of the inheritee.",
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        {
          "ref": "[1995, Vicki L. Beyer, Keld Conradsen, “Translating Japanese Legal Documents into English: A Short Course”, in Marshall Morris, editor, Translation and the Law, page 157",
          "text": "“Hisozokunin” is the opposite of “sozokunin”: inheritor or successor. It is literally translated as “inheritee” or “predecessor.”]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Wada Haruki, “Economic Co-operation in Place of Historical Remorse […]”, in Banno Junji, editor, The Political Economy of Japanese Society, volume 2, page 346, note 16",
          "text": "The same revision of the Civil Code put into effect a new arrangement whereby the inheritor who has done much to care for and nurse the inheritee should be entitled to receive a portion of the inheritance as a special ‘compensation’ for his/her caretaking contribution.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2013, Korea Legislation Research Institute, editor, Introduction to Korean Law, page 137",
          "text": "The inheritee’s estate passes in its entirety immediately upon death to the inheritor […]",
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          "ref": "2019, Won-Lim Lee, Jung Won Jun, chapter 4, in Contract Law in South Korea, section 1.1.177",
          "text": "In this context, it should be mentioned that the general/universal successor, e.g., an heir (inheritor) of the deceased (inheritee), is not a third party.",
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        "One who is inherited from; an ancestor."
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        "(uncommon, chiefly East Asia) One who is inherited from; an ancestor."
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          "ref": "1869, Henry Gawen Sutton, Introductory Lecture Delivered at the London Hospital, page 19",
          "text": "It is very interesting to notice that inherited diseases usually appear at about the same age in the inheritee as they did in the person from whom they were inherited.",
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          "ref": "1979 February, Arthur De Vany, Nicolas Sanchez, “Land Tenure Structures and Fertility in Mexico”, in The Review of Economics and Statistics, volume 61, number 1, →JSTOR, page 68",
          "text": "Thus, the usufruct form of land tenure encourages parents to produce potential and heir and encourages extended families (parents living with children) as a means of facilitating transfer of the property and monitoring the prospective inheritee’s performance.",
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          "ref": "1997, Stephen T. Emlen, “Predicting Family Dynamics in Social Vertebrates”, in John R. Krebs, Nicholas B. Davies, editors, Behavioural Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach, 4th edition, page 247",
          "text": "Even in dynastic situations, where inheritance of the high-quality parental territory is favoured as the primary route to becoming a breeder, severe conflict is expected among potential inheritees.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2005, Stuart White, “Is Conditionality Illiberal?”, in Lawrence M. Mead, Christopher Beem, editors, Welfare Reform and Political Theory, page 100",
          "text": "[…] one way of mitigating the problem would be to introduce a compulsory citizens’ service scheme in which all young people are required to provide, say, two years of service to society. […] However, this would still be a rather limited response to the problem, leaving lucky inheritees with plenty of time after citizens’ service to free ride if they wish.",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2022, Richard Masters, Rudolf Steiner and Social Reform, page 536",
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        "(uncommon) Heir, inheritor; one who inherits."
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          "ref": "1791, [Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani], translated by Charles Hamilton, The Hedaya, or Guide; a Commentary on the Mussulman Laws, volume 2, page 705",
          "text": "It is a rule, that if an inheritee’s right of property in any thing be proven, still a decree cannot pass in favour of the heirs, until proof be adduced of the death of the inheritee.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "[1995, Vicki L. Beyer, Keld Conradsen, “Translating Japanese Legal Documents into English: A Short Course”, in Marshall Morris, editor, Translation and the Law, page 157",
          "text": "“Hisozokunin” is the opposite of “sozokunin”: inheritor or successor. It is literally translated as “inheritee” or “predecessor.”]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Wada Haruki, “Economic Co-operation in Place of Historical Remorse […]”, in Banno Junji, editor, The Political Economy of Japanese Society, volume 2, page 346, note 16",
          "text": "The same revision of the Civil Code put into effect a new arrangement whereby the inheritor who has done much to care for and nurse the inheritee should be entitled to receive a portion of the inheritance as a special ‘compensation’ for his/her caretaking contribution.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2013, Korea Legislation Research Institute, editor, Introduction to Korean Law, page 137",
          "text": "The inheritee’s estate passes in its entirety immediately upon death to the inheritor […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Won-Lim Lee, Jung Won Jun, chapter 4, in Contract Law in South Korea, section 1.1.177",
          "text": "In this context, it should be mentioned that the general/universal successor, e.g., an heir (inheritor) of the deceased (inheritee), is not a third party.",
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        }
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        "One who is inherited from; an ancestor."
      ],
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        "(uncommon, chiefly East Asia) One who is inherited from; an ancestor."
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