01 n. One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to pre…
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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.“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.