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universal successor
universal successor n. Law (frequently Scots Law) a person who succeeds another entirely, in respect of the whole of an estate and its concomitant rights and duties; cf. sense A. 11, university n. 2e.In Scots Law sometimes contrasted with a singular successor (singular successor at singular adj. 4b) who does not necessarily take on the rights and duties of his or her predecessor along with the estate concerned.
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1613 J. Hayward Liues III. Normans 123 Hee did not settle himselfe in the chaire of Soueraignetie, as one that had reduced all things to the proud power and pleasure of a Conquerour, but as an vniuersall successor of former Kings, in all the rights and priuiledges which they did enioy.
1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. xxvi. 92 Heirs in Law are called Universal Successors,..[because] they do wholly represent the defunct and..both succeed to him..in all the rights belonging to him, and..in all the obligations and debts due by him.
1752 A. McDouall Inst. Laws Scotl. II. 341 Heirs of line, heirs of conquest, and heirs-male, are liable universally to the predecessor's debts..because they are all, in some measure, heirs at law, and therefore universal successors.
1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 951 In this sense the two terms of singular successor and universal successor are opposed to each other.
1915 R. W. Lee Roman-Dutch Law 286 He was said to ‘adiate’ the inheritance (adire hereditatem), and from that moment was in the position of a universal successor.
2001 J. W. Harris in S. R. Munzer New Ess. in Legal & Polit. Theory of Prop. iv. 132 The law arms the owner with a power that he may exercise, and revoke, in a prescribed form. It correlates with a future liability of whomever the testator (or the law) designates as universal successor.
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