SUCCESSOR

successor. successor, he that comes in place of another

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successor. Successor, n. one who succeeds to another

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Suc‐ces″sor (?), n. [[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.