Successor
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
One who follows or comes into the place of another. This term is applied more particularly to a sole corporation, or to any corporation. -The word "heir" is more correctly applicable to a common person who takes an estate by descent.
12 Pick. (Mass.) 322; Co. Litt. 8b.
A person who has been appointed or elected to some office after another person. SUCCURRITUR MIN0R1; FACILIS EST lapsus juventutis. A minor is to be aided; youth is liable to err.
Jenk. Cent. Gas. 47.