survivor (servivor)

[ Death is what man should wish. But, oh! what fate Shall on thy wife, thy sad survivor, wait! Rowe. He was seventy years old when he was left destitute, the survivor of those who should have survived him. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vii. 2. In law, that one of two or more designated persons who lives the longest: usually of two joint tenants, or any two persons who have a survivorship (ser-vivor-ship), n. [ We [an ill-a orted couple] are now going into the country together, with only one hope for making this life agreeable, survivorship. Steele, Tatler, No. 53. 2. In 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 the other. When there are more than two joint tenants and succe ive deaths occur, the whole estate remains to the survivors and finally to the last survivor. 3. An expectative to a specified benefice; the right and privilege to be collated in the future to a specified benefice not vacant at the time of the grant. - Chance of survivorship, the chance, according to tables of mortality, that a person of one age has of outliving a person of a different age. Surya (sör'yä), n. [