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Definition of Successors
1. successor [n] - See also: successor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Successors
Literary usage of Successors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"The said first party further agrees that the timber cut by the said second party,
Its successors or assigns, for the purpose of opening, clearing, ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"But neither he himself nor his successors could control the situation. ...
Unfortunately for him and his successors, Assyria, having absorbed all the ..."
3. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon (1881)
"He bequeathed, as a valuable legacy to his successors, the advice of confining
the empire within those limits which nature seemed to have placed as its ..."
4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1920)
"True It Is that counsel In agreeing as to the statement above referred to suggest
that, although the successors In office of the former defendants Intend In ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Charles John Crompton, John Jervis, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1833)
"... or resident tenants, or servants of us, our heirs or successors, in any of
our Courts (or those of) our heirs or successors, or tenants resident and not ..."
6. The Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"Sarum & ther Successors may haue hold vse ... declare or will & pleasure to be &
doe hereby for vs & or Successors Covenant & grant to & with the sd Maior ..."
7. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"helm of State, and training up others to be his successors. When his time comes
he shall depart in peace ..."
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