Succession at Legal Glossary What is it? The passing of property or legal rights after death.
Succession
(n) Succession is the inheritance of the property of the deceased by his legal inheritances as per the prevailing law, when the deceased person has not made a legal will distributing his / her property by any other means ...
The original owner of any thing which receives an accession by natural or artificial means, as by the growth of vegetables, the pregnancy of animals; the embroidering of cloth, or the conversion of wood or metal into vessels or utensils, ...
Lateral succession: Succession of property ownership in which the property is transferred between members of the same generation.
Intestate Succession: The process by which the property of a person who has died without a will passes on to others according to the state's descent and distribution statutes.
Cession. A yielding up; transfer. Cede: to give up, yield up. Somers v. Pierson, 16 N.J.L. 184 (1837).
CESSION, contracts. Yielding up; release.
2. France ceded Louisiana to the United States, by the treaty of Paris, of April 30, 1803 Spain made a cession of East and West Florida, by the treaty of February 22, 1819.
Secession in American history is best defined as the removal of a political entity from the federal Union. It is closely related to, but not synonymous with, Nullification; it can only be understood in contrast with Unionism.
SUCCESSION
State succession applies when a new state is formed from territory once ruled by another sovereign. Essentially, a new state replaces a former state through annexation, union, dissolution, or separation.
succession The acquisition of title to property from someone who dies without disposing of the property by will; as distinguished from the acquisition of title by testamentary disposition.
Cession
Definition - Noun
1 : an act of ceding
: a yielding (as of property) to another: as
a in the civil law of Louisiana : assignment or transfer of property rights by a debtor to a creditor ...
succession
n. the statutory rules of inheritance of a dead person's estate when the property is not given by the terms of a will, also called laws of "descent and distribution."
See also: inheritance ...
"A succession may be accepted outright or subject to benefit of inventory....
"The declaration of an heir, that he intends to assume that capacity only under benefit of inventory, must be made at the court....
VACANT SUCCESSION.
An inheritance for which the heirs are unknown. ... more
VACANTIA, BONA,
civil law. Goods without an owner. Such goods escheat. ... more ...
"Regulating succession or inheritance Ab intestato is a legislative province.
intestate succession - A succession of property when the deceased has left no will, or when the will has been revoked.
irrelevant - Evidence not sufficiently related to the matter in issue.
INTESTATE SUCCESSION -- In cases where a decedent has left no valid will, a statutory determination of the right to inherit the decedent’s property, made according to the heirs’ relationship to the decedent.
To the latter cause must be traced a provision appearing in a succession of statutes (see especially an act of Richard II., 1388), that a child under twelve years once employed in agriculture might never be transferred to apprenticeship in a craft.
To hand over or give poccession of an asset to someone.
Construction:
The legal process of interpreting a phrase or document; of trying to find it's meaning.
In a commercial situation the most common use is where a variation or concession is made without the other party giving anything in return. A deed is enforceable regardless of the legal requirements for contracts such as the need for consideration.
A person entitled to inherit property under intestate succession laws.
high seas
International marine waters not included in the territorial waters of any country. Because the high seas are not owned by any country, they have their own set of laws.
proceeding: the succession of events constituting the process by which judicial action is invoked and utilized pursuant to procedure
preclude: To prevent or stop ...
Coke was born February 1, 1551, called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1578, became Recorder of London, 1591-92, Solicitor- General, 1592, member and speaker the House of Commons, 1593, Attorney-General, 1594, was knighted on the accession of ...
crop rotation : A system of farming in which a regular succession of different crops are planted on the same land area, as opposed to growing the same crop time after time (monoculture).
A mace is a staff of office symbolising authority. The mace is carried in and out of the Commons and Lords Chambers in a procession at the beginning and end of each day. Without the mace in position, each House cannot sit and debate.
Read literally, the terms of the grant prevented alienation of the land out of the prescribed line of succession. A life fee or a life estate was one that would endure for the lifetime of the grantee and after his death would go to some other person.
A more balanced alternative is the Declaration of Cybersecession ("Human beings possess a mind, which they are absolutely free to inhabit with no legal constraints. Human civilization is developing its own (collective) mind.
Corporation - One or more individuals (determined by local law) organized and treated by law as having a legal individuality distinct from that of its several members; vested with the capacity of continuous succession irrespective of changes in ...
Under such circumstances, state law prescribes who will receive the decedent's property. The laws of intestate succession generally favor the surviving spouse, children, ...
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