Like the owners of many historic ranches, the Greens will face a crossroads: they have no children, though a young nephew is a potential heir.
Furthermore, through his mother Gurandukht, sister of the childless Abkhazian king Theodosius III, Bagrat was a potential heir to the realm of Abkhazia.
John's elder brothers William, Henry and Geoffrey died young; by the time Richard I became king in 1189, John was a potential heir to the throne.
After dissolving his cabinet yesterday, Mubarak appointed Suleiman vice-president, and according to many commentators he is poised to be a potential successor, and an alternative to Mubarak's son and intended heir until now, Gamal Mubarak.
Abolishing the tax now would be a potential boon for his heirs, and for him.
It was at City Ballet that he was treated as a potential heir to Balanchine and given the opportunities to prove himself the longed-for solution to the what-to-do-after-Balanchine problem.
He is viewed as a potential heir to the movement his father led in the last two nomination fights.
Forstall's team won and he was seen as a potential heir to Steve Jobs – although others inside the company accused him of playing company politics.
Ren's daughter Cathy Meng, Huawei's chief financial officer, has previously been named as a potential heir to her father's position, but that seems less likely given what he wrote in his email.
Jayaprakash Narayan, one of India's greatest 20th century social activists, was at one stage considered a potential heir to Nehru.
