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Successor

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Successor, one that follows in the place of another. The correlative of predecessor in the succession, (English) Succession Duty Act, 1883. See PREDECESSOR.

A person who succeeds to officer, rights, responsibilities, or place of another; one who replaces or follow another, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1446.

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