An heir; a person en-titled to share in the distribution of an es-tate. This term is admissible to denote one of the persons who are entitled, under the statute of distributions, to the personal es-tate of one who is dead Intestate. Henry v. Henry, 31 N. C. 278; Kitchen v. Southern Ry., 68 S. C. 554, 48 S. E. 4