- heir by adoption
- One who inherits by force of a legal adoption of him as the child of another or by or through a relationship created by the legal adoption of a child. 2 Am J2d Adopt § 100.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
heir by adoption
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