Survivorship

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Law The right of a person who survives a partner or joint owner to the entire ownership of something that was previously owned jointly.
  • n. The condition of being a survivor.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The state of being a survivor.
  • n. A right whereby a person becomes entitled to property by reason of his having survived another person who had an interest in it. It is one of the elements of a joint tenancy.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The state of being a survivor.
  • n. The right of a joint tenant, or other person who has a joint interest in an estate, to take the whole estate upon the death of other.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state of surviving; survival.
  • n. In law, the right of a joint tenant or other person who has a joint interest in an estate to take the whole estate upon the death of the other.
  • n. An expectative to a specified benefice; the right and privilege to be collated in the future to a specified benefice not vacant at the time of the grant.
  • n. The probability that where several persons perished at practically the same time. as, by the same accident, one briefly outlived the others. This inference was based on medical science and, until recently, upon it was decided the disposition of rights or property affected. The rule of law now followed is that that person survives in whom the ownership vested at the time. A counterclaim must be proved.
    • Word Usage
    "The term survivorship was first coined in 1985, but was expanded to include family members and caregivers since "no one can survive cancer alone.""
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