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Survivorship

Survivorship, the living or one of two or more persons after the death of the other or others. See

Vesting

instrument whereby a personal representative after the death of a tenant for life or statutory owner or the survivor of two or more tenants for life or statutory owners vests settled land in a person entitled as

Tontine

Tontine, a life-annuity, or a loan raised on life-annuities, with benefit of survivorship. The term originated from the circumstance that Lorenzo Tonti, an Italian, invented this kind of security in the

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Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in

to husband and wife, and their issue, male or female, if either of them die without issue, the survivor is tenant-in-tail after possibility of issue extinct; and even if there have been issue, yet if the issue

tenancy

interests in the same property and in which title to the entire property is to remain to the survivors upon the death of one of them (as a spouse) and so on to the last survivor [a

Guardianship

right to appoint a guardian by deed or will to act after death respectively either jointly with the survivor or otherwise, as the Court may direct. (2) Maternal.--Under the Acts of 1886 and 1925, s. 4, on

Cy-pres

consent of three persons to a marriage, and one or more of them die, the consent of the survivor or survivors would be deemed a sufficient compliacne with the condition. And a fortiori, this doctrine would be

survivorship

survivorship 1 : the right of one or more joint tenants who have survived another to take the interest

joint life and survivorship annuity

joint life and survivorship annuity : joint-and-survivor annuity at annuity

joint and survivorship annuity

joint and survivorship annuity : joint-and-survivor annuity at annuity

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