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survivorship |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Survivorship \Sur*viv"or*ship\, n. 1. The state of being a survivor. 1. (Law) 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
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