Word Meanings - SUCCESSOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: SUCCESSOR

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUCCESSOR)

• Inheritor
• Heir
• successor
• devisee
• legatee

Related words: (words related to SUCCESSOR)

• INHERITOR
  One who inherits; an heir. Born inheritors of the dignity. Milton.
• LEGATEE
  One to whom a legacy is bequeathed.
• SUCCESSOR
  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
• DEVISEE
  One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will.
• CO-LEGATEE
  A joint legatee.
• COINHERITOR
  A coheir.