We need context.
In the US and estate planning, assets move between spouses upon the death of either spouse. Then goes to children, usually in equal shares, or if no children equally to siblings.
In religion, certain traditions only pass down from males to males or even from a family to only female children.
If the family did not have a male heir, all the family's wealth was passed to the nearest male relative upon the death of the husband/father. Women were not allowed to own property.
all family's wealth was passed to the nearest male relative upon the death of the husband/father. women were not allowed to own property.
The inheriting female would be married off to a male relative - eg uncle to keep the estale firmly in the family under male control.
Henry wanted a male heir so that the Tudor dynasty would carry on.
yes Henry had a male heir
We need context. In the US and estate planning, assets move between spouses upon the death of either spouse. Then goes to children, usually in equal shares, or if no children equally to siblings. In religion, certain traditions only pass down from males to males or even from a family to only female children.
no heir = male heiress = female
Heir is male. Heiress is female.However, those gender-based terms are obsolete. Modern statutory law treats all those who would inherit from an estate as heirs.
He needed A Male Heir to continue on his family line as prince then king, a woman counldnt do that
the female is an heiress
The noun for a male is an heir; the noun for a female is an heiress.
none that I ever heard of. But, the war department would seek the last remaining male military member of a family and ship him home