Sub Stitution

In Civil Law. The putting of one person in the place of another, so that he may, in default of ability in the former, or after him, have the benefit of a devise or legacy. Direct substitution is merely the institution of a second legatee in case the first should be either incapable or unwilling to accept the legacy. Fidei commissary substitution is that which takes place when the person substituted is not to receive, the legacy after the first legatee, and, consequently, must receive the thing bequeathed from the hands of the latter. Merlin, Rupert. See Subrogation.

In the civil law. The putting one person in place of another; particularly, the act of a testator in naming a second devisee or legatee who is to take the bequest either on failure of the original devisee or legatee or after him.

In Scotch law. The enumeration or designation of the heirs in a settlement of property. Substitutes in an entail are those heirs who are appointed in succession on failure of others.

In Scots law. An enumeration scribed in proper technical language.

In modern civil law. The designation, in a devise or legacy, on failure of a former him. a succession to the rights unius credltoris in aliuin, is the transfusion of with modified rights. thing in place of another; another as a creditor, aa another succeeds to his or surrogate; to subbottom or end of a writing of a writing or instruthing; to take part in a under; a writing of the by way of attestation constitution granted in Subscriptio testiam: signature under or at the or attestation, or benches, occupied by they sat in judgment to an enterprise of money by the parliament supply, or supplies.; to subscriba part of a thing, as discreates and defines rights. of another. process provided by statplace of another. person as heir in place of of a series of heirs, dewill, of a person to take a devisee or legatee, or after ice from a lord, tithes from a parson, conjugal rights from a husband or wife, or the lilre.