Survivor

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Survivor \Sur*viv"or\, n.
     1. One who survives or outlives another person, or any time,
        event, or thing.
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              The survivor bound


              In filial obligation for some term
              To do obsequious sorrow.              --Shak.
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     2. (Law) The longer liver of two joint tenants, or two
        persons having a joint interest in anything. --Blackstone.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  survivor
       n 1: one who lives through affliction; "the survivors of the fire
            were taken to a hospital" [syn: {subsister}]
       2: one who outlives another; "he left his farm to his
          survivors"
       3: an animal that survives in spite of adversity; "only the
          fittest animals were survivors of the cold winters"

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  SURVIVOR. The longest liver of two or more persons. 
       2. In crises of partnership, the surviving partner is entitled to have 
  all the effects of the partnership, and, is bound to pay all the debts owing 
  by the firm. Gow on Partn. 157; Watson on Partn. 364. He is, however, bound 
  to account for the surplus to the representatives of his deceased partners, 
  agreeably to their respective rights. 
       3. A surviving trustee is generally vested with all the powers of all 
  the trustees, and the surviving administrator is authorized to act for the 
  estate as if he had been sole administrator. As to the presumption of 
  survivorship, when two or more persons have perished by the same event, see 
  Civ. Code of Lo. art. 930 to 933 and vide Death; Cro. Eliz. 503; 1 Bl. Rep. 
  610 2 Phillim. Rep. 261; S. C. 1 Eccl. Reports, 250; Fearne on Rem. iv.; 
  Poth. on Obli. by Evans, vol. 2, p. 346; 8 Ves. 10; 14 Ves. 578 17 Ves. 482; 
  6 Taunt. 213; Cowp. 257; 5 Ves. 485. Vide, generally, 2 Fonb. Eq. 102; 8 
  Vin. Ab. 323; 20 Vin. Ab. 146; 8 Com. Dig. 475, 594; 1 Suppl. to Ves. jun. 
  115, 186, 407, 8, 2 Suppl. to Ves. jun. 47, 296, 340, 391,477; 1 Fodere, 
  Med. Leg. Sec. 424-483. 
       4. The right of survivorship among joint-tenants has been abolished, 
  except as to estates held in trust, in Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky, 
  Virginia, Indiana, Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, North and South 
  Carolina. Vide Estates in Joint-tenancy. In Connecticut it never existed. 1 
  Swift's Dig. 102 see 1 Hill. Ab. 440. As to survivorship among legatees, see 
  1 Turn. & R. 413; 1 Br. C. C. 574; 3 Russ. 217. See Death; Estates in Joint-
  tenancy; Joint-tenants; Partnership.