survivorship
Americannoun
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the state of being a survivor.
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Law. a right of a person to property on the death of another having a joint interest: in the case of more than two joint tenants, the property passes to successive survivors.
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The team also included delisted stocks to avoid a common issue in backtesting known as survivorship bias, where performance is overstated by including only stocks that are currently active.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Whether a jointly owned property with rights of survivorship is subject to recovery can depend on the language of the deed and other variables.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
From your letter, I take it that you are her only living heir or that you own this house as joint tenants with the right of survivorship, meaning you effectively both own a 100% share.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
For example, bank accounts owned by joint tenants with right of survivorship will automatically pass to the surviving account holder, no matter what the will says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
The difficulty of the case arises, of course, from the circumstance of there being no evidence whatever as to the actual fact of survivorship.
From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren
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