Category:Successor

Suc*ces"sor, n. Etym: [oe. successour, of. successur, successor, f. Successeur, l. successor. See succeed.]

Defn: 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.