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Definition of Survivorship
1. n. The state of being a survivor.
Definition of Survivorship
1. Noun. The state of being a survivor. ¹
2. Noun. (legal) 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Survivorship
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Survivorship
Literary usage of Survivorship
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Wills by Thomas Jarman, Joseph Fitz Randolph, William Talcott (1881)
"6 It is evident, that, by "benefit of survivorship," the learned judge ... Abey.
fj,js: that although survivorship is not an incident to A tenancy in common ..."
2. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"A clause of survivorship between two legatees, if.either of them should die,
confined to a ease of lapse ; and did not prevent the legacies vesting. King v. ..."
3. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, Charles M. Barnes (1884)
"of survivorship, and the wife took it by survivorship as against the assignees,
... and those that accrue during coverture, as to hor right of survivorship. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Walter Vere Vaughan Williams (1877)
"[But the mere fact that the testator mentions by name the individuals who make
up the class is not conclusive against the right by survivorship ; and if the ..."
5. Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana (1855)
"QUESTION OF survivorship. The interesting case below was tried in Rolls Court,
Chancery Lane, July, 1854, before the Master of the Rolls. ..."
6. The Scots Digest of the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland: And ...by John Condie Stewart Sandeman by John Condie Stewart Sandeman (1905)
"survivorship Clause — Immediate Vesting. — A testator left his whole estate to
... Held that there was no proper clause of survivorship, and that the estate ..."
7. Cotenancy and Partition: A Treatise on the Law of Co-ownership as it Exists by Abraham Clark Freeman (1886)
"It should also be remembered that each joint-tenant has, by the operation of the
law of survivorship, an equal chance with his cotenant of succeeding to the ..."
8. A Treatise on Wills by Thomas Jarman, Joseph Fitz Randolph, William Talcott (1881)
"6 It is evident, that, by "benefit of survivorship," the learned judge ... Abey.
fj,js: that although survivorship is not an incident to A tenancy in common ..."
9. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"A clause of survivorship between two legatees, if.either of them should die,
confined to a ease of lapse ; and did not prevent the legacies vesting. King v. ..."
10. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, Charles M. Barnes (1884)
"of survivorship, and the wife took it by survivorship as against the assignees,
... and those that accrue during coverture, as to hor right of survivorship. ..."
11. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Walter Vere Vaughan Williams (1877)
"[But the mere fact that the testator mentions by name the individuals who make
up the class is not conclusive against the right by survivorship ; and if the ..."
12. Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana (1855)
"QUESTION OF survivorship. The interesting case below was tried in Rolls Court,
Chancery Lane, July, 1854, before the Master of the Rolls. ..."
13. The Scots Digest of the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland: And ...by John Condie Stewart Sandeman by John Condie Stewart Sandeman (1905)
"survivorship Clause — Immediate Vesting. — A testator left his whole estate to
... Held that there was no proper clause of survivorship, and that the estate ..."
14. Cotenancy and Partition: A Treatise on the Law of Co-ownership as it Exists by Abraham Clark Freeman (1886)
"It should also be remembered that each joint-tenant has, by the operation of the
law of survivorship, an equal chance with his cotenant of succeeding to the ..."
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