survivorship

The right to sole ownership of an estate upon the death of any joint owners of the estate.

The condition of being a survivor.

The probability that where several persons perished at practically the same time. as, by the same accident, one briefly outlived the others. This inference was based on medical science and, until recently, upon it was decided the disposition of rights or property affected. The rule of law now followed is that that person survives in whom the ownership vested at the time. A counterclaim must be proved.

The state of surviving; survival.

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.

An expectative to a specified benefice; the right and privilege to be collated in the future to a specified benefice not vacant at the time of the grant.

The state of being a survivor.

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.

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.

The state of being a survivor.