{"id":37010,"date":"2026-09-18T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=37010"},"modified":"2026-09-19T12:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T17:56:23","slug":"heirs-and-assigns-forever-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/heirs-and-assigns-forever-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Heirs and Assigns Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I give this property to John Smith and his heirs and assigns forever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The phrase \u201cheirs and assigns forever\u201d typically means that John can \u201cassign\u201d to someone (by selling by deed or giving by will) the property or, if he has not done that by his death, then John\u2019s heirs will have title to the property (depending upon contemporary state statute and common legal practice at the time).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>That\u2019s a rather simplified version of \u201cheirs and assigns\u201d forever, but \u201cheirs\u201d and \u201cassigns\u201d mean different things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>And the genealogist who doesn\u2019t concern themself with the definitions runs the risk of drawing conclusions that are not necessarily true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I give this property to John Smith and his heirs and assigns forever.\u201d The phrase \u201cheirs and assigns forever\u201d typically means that John can \u201cassign\u201d to someone (by selling by deed or giving by will) the property or, if he has not done that by his death, then John\u2019s heirs will have title to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}