So, for example, the conjunctive relation [being both a child and an heir of] includes the relation [being a child of].
In a phone interview, Roderick K. McLeod, the chief executive officer, said American Classic had acquired the rights to the name from an heir of a former director of the old line, which last carried passengers in 1969.
Mr. Hewlett, an heir of William Hewlett, a Hewlett-Packard co-founder, is no grass-roots populist.
He's an heir of Ibsen, a master observer who calibrates the torments and emotional bruises, the rationed caresses and playful lies, with a clinical precision.
If the land held by a disseisor was claimed by an heir of the original owner in seisin, the heir could bring a similar legal action known as the assize of mort d'ancestor.
To get a handle on a new plan, Todd turned to an heir of James Coleman: the researcher John Powell.
But he's also an heir of Beckett, an opaque symbolist who spurns psychology in favor of total metaphors that rip the veil off reality to expose the core of existential pain.
Worthy vocations both, but the description was clearly a swipe at the credibility of Mr. Hewlett, an heir of the company's co-founder who is leading a proxy fight to defeat Hewlett-Packard's plan to buy Compaq Computer.
A contrasting opinion came from the pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni, who considered Mendelssohn "a master of undisputed greatness" and "an heir of Mozart".
Mr. Hewlett, an heir of the co-founder and a Hewlett-Packard board member, is leading a proxy fight against the Compaq merger.
