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Survivorship   Listen
noun
Survivorship  n.  
1.
The state of being a survivor.
2.
(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.
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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"Survivorship" Quotes from Famous Books



... "The Survivorship of a worthy Man in his Son is a Pleasure scarce inferior to the Hopes of the Continuance of ...
— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey
... entered the Academy of Sciences, the perpetual secretary was Grandjean de Fouchy. The bad health of this estimable scholar occasioned an early vacancy to be foreseen. D'Alembert cast his views on Bailly, hinted to him the survivorship to Fouchy, and proposed to him, by way of preparing the way, to write some biographies. Bailly followed the advice of the illustrious geometer, and chose as the subject of his studies, the eloges proposed by several academies, though ...
— Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men • Francois Arago


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