Survivorship definition

sər-vīvər-shĭp
(law) The right to sole ownership of an estate upon the death of any joint owners of the estate.
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The condition of being a survivor.
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The state of being a survivor.
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(law) The right of a surviving owner or owners of property held as under joint tenancy to undivided ownership upon the death of either or any of them.
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The right whereby someone who has an interest in a property becomes entitled to the entire property by virtue of outliving all others with an interest in that property. It is one of the features of joint tenancy. Also, the condition of the one person out of two or more to remain alive after the others die.
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The state of being a survivor.
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(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.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
survivorship
Plural:
survivorships

Origin of survivorship

  • From survivor +"Ž -ship.

    From Wiktionary

Survivorship Sentence Examples

  • Some of the systems founded on the civil law, as the French code, have adopted certain rules of survivorship.

  • In cases where action must be taken for preserving or asserting a right, a day would mean the natural day of twenty-four hours, but on the other hand, as in cases of survivorship, for testamentary or other purposes, it would suffice if a person survived for even the smallest portion of the last day necessary.

  • Understand what Ro means, and how to interpret Life Tables and survivorship curves.

  • It is an annual overnight event designed to celebrate cancer survivorship while raising money for research and the programs of the American Cancer Society.

  • The question of survivorship, where two or more persons are shown to have perished by the same catastrophe, as in cases of shipwreck, has been much discussed.

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