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Webster 1913 Edition
Survivorship
Sur-viv′or-ship
,Noun.
1.
The state of being a survivor.
1.
(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 other.
Blackstone.
Chance of survivorship
, the chance that a person of a given age has of surviving another of a giving age; thus, by the Carlisle tables of mortality the chances of survivorship for two persons, aged 25 and 65, are 89 and 11 respectively, or about 8 to 1 that the elder die first.
Webster 1828 Edition
Survivorship
SURVI'VORSHIP
,Noun.
1.
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. When there are more than two joint tenants, the whole estate remains to the last survivor by right of survivorship.Definition 2024
survivorship
survivorship
English
Noun
survivorship (usually uncountable, plural survivorships)
- The state of being a survivor.
- (law) 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.
Derived terms
See also
- (legal right): tenancy