Category:Survivorship

Sur*viv"or*ship, n.

1. The state of being a survivor.

1. (law)

Defn: the right of a joint tenant, or other person who has a joint Interest in an estate, to take the whole estate upon the death of Other. Blackstone. Chance of survivorship, the chance that a person Of a given age has of surviving another of a giving age; thus, by the Carlisle tables of mortality the chances of survivorship for two Persons, aged 25 and 65, are 89 and 11 respectively, or about 8 to 1 That the elder die first.