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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Artificial succession

see succession (4).

Succession

n 1 The act or right of legally or officially taking over a predecessor's office, rank, or duties. 2. The acquisition of rights or property by inheritance under the laws of descent and distribution; DESCENT (1). - succeed, vb.

Successional

adj. Of or relating to acquiring rights or property by inheritance under the laws of descent and distribution.

domicile of succession

The domicile that determines the succession of a person's estate.

hereditary succession

Succession by the common law of descent. See DESCENT; TESTATE SUCCESSION; INTESTATE SUCCESSION.

hereditary succession.

See SUCCESSION (2).

intestate succession

See INTESTATE SUCCESSION.

intestate succession.

The method used to distribute property owned by a person who dies without a valid will. - Also termed hereditary succession. Cf TESTATE SUCCESSION.

irregular succession

Succession by special laws favoring certain persons or the state, rather than heirs (such as testamentary heirs) under the ordinary laws of descent.

legal succession

The succession established by law, usu. in favor of the nearest relation of a deceased person.

natural succession

Succession between natural persons, as in descent on the death of an ancestor.

perpetual succession

The continuous succession of a corporation - despite changes in shareholders and officers - for as long as the corporation legally exists. "As a general rule, the words perpetual succession,' as used in charters, often in connection with a further provision limiting the period of corporate existence to a certain number of years, mean nothing more than that the corporation shall have continuous and uninterrupted succession so long as it shall continue to exist as a corporation, and are not intended to define its duration." 18 Am. Jur. 2d Corporations ยง 69, at 883 (1985).

rapport & succession

n. [French "return to succession"] Civil law. The restoration to an estate of property that an heir received in advance from the decedent, so that an even distribution may be made among all the heirs. Cf. HOTCHPOT.

spes successionis

[Latin "hope of succession"] Hope of succeeding to a right. "A mere spes successionis must be distinguished from a contingent right. If Matilda has nursed her invalid friend for thirty years, she may have every hope of succeeding to the property, but she has no right." George Whitecross Paton, A Textbook of Jurisprudence 306 (G.W. Paton & David P. Derham eds., 4th ed. 1972).

succession tax

See inheritance tax.

testamentary succession

see succession.

testate succession

See TESTATE SUCCESSION.

universal succession

See SUCCESSION.

vacant succession

Civil law. 1. A succession that fails either because there are no known heirs or because the heirs have renounced the estate. 2. An estate that has suffered such a failure. 3. The right by which one group, in replacing another group, acquires all the goods, movables, and other chattels of a corporation. 4. The continuation of a corporation's legal status despite changes in ownership or management. - Also termed artificial succession. -successor, n.