Before the son and heir can claim his inheritance, he goes missing, presumed drowned, at the end of his journey back to London.

In the case where a noble was granted a castle belonging to the crown, his heirs couldn't later claim their ancestors' civil or military rights.

Tie it up, by all means, so that only her heirs can claim a farthing of it.

It was only after the funeral ale that the heirs could rightfully claim their inheritance.

It was this area that Columbus (and his heirs) claimed as his private domain, but which the Crown did not recognize.

(Columbus's heirs had claimed the entire territory.)

How are they going to take it when the rightful heir blithely rides in to claim what's his?

For a time, the heirs of both Joan and Joyce claimed the title of Powys.

If they were appointed to a crown castle, their heirs couldn't claim their civil or military authority as inheritance.

When a person dies intestate after making a fixed deposit in a bank, the nomination made in favour of one will not disentitle the legal heirs to claim a distributive share.