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Webster 1913 Edition

Successor

Suc-ces′sor

,
Noun.
[OE.
successour
, OF.
successur
,
successor
, F.
successeur
, L.
successor
. See
Succeed
.]
One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; – correlative to predecessor;
as, the
successor
of a deceased king
.
Chaucer.
A gift to a corporation, either of lands or of chattels, without naming their
successors
, vests an absolute property in them so lond as the corporation subsists.
Blackstone.

Webster 1828 Edition

Successor

SUCCESS'OR

,
Noun.
[L.] One that succeeds or follows; one that takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; correlative to predecessor; as the successor of a deceased king; the successor of a president or governor; a man's son and successor.
A gift to a corporation, either of lands or of chattels, without naming their successors,vests an absolute property in them so long as the corporation subsists.

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