Legal Definition and Related Resources of Survive
Meaning of Survive
Ordinarily means to live longer than some other individual, but it may mean to continue to live beyond a specified period, event or condition. 220 111. 511. It imports that the person who is to survive must be living at the death of the person whom, or at the happening of the event which, he is to survive. To outlive. “To live after” is somewhat ambiguous. See “Survivor.” 35 L. J. Ch, 640; L. R. 2 Eq. 341.
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Survive in the American Legislation
Definition of Survive provided by the Uniform Probate Code:
Means that an individual has neither predeceased an event, including the death of another individual, nor is deemed to have predeceased an event under Section 2-104 or 2-702. The term includes its derivatives, such as “survives,” “survived,” “survivor,” and “surviving.”
Grammar
This term is a verb.
Etimology of Survive
(You may find survive at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms).
mid-15c. (implied in surviving), “to outlive, continue in existence after the death of another,” originally in the legal (inheritance) sense, from Anglo-French survivre, Old French souvivre (12c., Modern French survivre), from Latin supervivere “live beyond, live longer than,” from super “over, beyond” (see super-) + vivere “to live” (from PIE root *gwei- “to live”). Intransitive sense “to live on” is from late 15c. Related: Survived; surviving.
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