I answered, yes, and immediately mentioned his having made me his universal heir.

He was at one time his universal heir, but it is not sure that this lasted until Peyrefitte's death.

To institute a 'universal heir' was increasingly common, and that heir was normally male.

He became their universal heir.

I name the Holy See my universal heir: I owe it duty, gratitude, love.

In his will he named the church at Macereto as universal heir to his fortunes "with powers to sell them in order to build".

He bequeathed all his belongings to Infanta Paz, who accepted them as his universal heir.

His maternal uncle Eberhard IV had no sons and made Louis his universal heir.

Grotowski's Will declared the two his "universal heirs," holders of copyright on the entirety of his textual output and intellectual property.

The pillage was general; and when orders came to send all the property of Trenck and deliver it to his universal heir, nothing remained that any person would accept.

These represented a significant addition to the lands of Armagnac because Bertrand instituted Régine, countess of Armagnac, as his sole and universal heir.

Upon his death Henry II seized his property as the escheat of a Jewish usurer, and the English crown thus became universal heir to his estate.

In late November Mrs. Burri produced a shakily handwritten will signed by her husband in December 1994, two months before his death, making her his universal heir.

Henry I the Bearded quickly began his efforts to designate his sole surviving son as the universal heir of his patrimony, and from 1222, the young prince appears to have signed documents along with his father.

He married firstly before the year 40 a woman named Petronia, daughter of Publius or Gaius Petronius Pontius Nigrinus, by whom he had a son Aulus Vitellius Petronianus, the universal heir of his mother and grandfather.

Shortly after the death of his uncle (who left him as his universal heir), Henry IV returned to Wroclaw, where he found himself under the direct care of one of the closest advisers of his late father, Simon Gallicusa.

Thus, when the sums are enumerated which I expended on the suits of Trenck, received from my friends at Berlin and Petersburg, it will be found that I cannot, at least, have been a gainer by having been made the universal heir of the immensely rich Trenck.

These, he saw, could not be paid, should I claim nothing more than the paternal inheritance; he, therefore, to render me unfortunate after his death, craftily named me his universal heir, without mentioning his father's will, but endeavoured, by his mysterious death, and the following conditions, to enforce the execution of his own will.