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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The mode by which one set of persons, members of a corporation aggregate, acquire the rights of another set which preceded them. This term in Strictness is to be applied only to such corporations. 2 Bl. j Comm. 430. _

Defined under Succession in The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary.