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 ...
Lateral succession: Succession of property ownership in which the property is transferred between members of the same generation.
INTESTATE SUCCESSION - refers to the law of the State providing for the inheritance of property from a person who dies without leaving a will.
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: 1. The act of following another, or succeeding to the rights of another. 2. The acquiring of property after the former owner dies and leaves it to a successor.
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." ...
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.
Succession and the Twenty-fifth Amendment
John Tyler was first Vice President to assume the Presidency following the death of his predecessor.
VACANT SUCCESSION. An inheritance for which the heirs are unknown.
VACANTIA, BONA, civil law. Goods without an owner. Such goods escheat.
Succession tax
Definition - Noun
1 : See also estate tax
2 : See also inheritance tax ...
succession
n. the statutory rules of inheritance of a dead person's estate w...
successive sentences
n. in criminal law, the imposition of the penalty for each of sev...
"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....
RAPPORT A SUCCESSION
A French term used in Louisiana, which is somewhat similar in its meaning to our homely term hotch-pot. It is the reunion to the mass of... more ...
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.
"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.
perpetual succession
Ownership of property remains with a group or organisation as a whole, not individual members of the group.
person responsible ...
proceeding: the succession of events constituting the process by which judicial action is invoked and utilized pursuant to procedure
preclude: To prevent or stop ...
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.
In California a "non-resident alien" who may take by succession is one who is neither a citizen of the United States nor a resident of that State.
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.
CHILD : Any individual entitled to take, as a child under law, by intestate succession, from the parent whose relationship is involved, and excludes any person who is only a stepchild, foster child, grandchild, or any remote descendant.
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).
In that case, property will pass according to the particular state's laws of intestate succession.
No-fault insurance ...
estate taxes The tax imposed on the property of a deceased person who transfers ownership by will or intestate succession.
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.
Under such circumstances, state law prescribes who will receive the decedent's property. The laws of intestate succession generally favor the surviving spouse, children, ...
 See also: Cession, Law, Person, Will, State
  
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