representative of a deceased person
- representative of a deceased person
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The executor or administrator of a deceased person, or a person or party who has succeeded to the right of the deceased, whether by purchase, descent, or operation of law. 58 Am J1st Witn § 237. A person
appointed, not by a testator in his will, but by the law, to represent an ancestor, and upon whom the law casts the inheritance. Bowen v Hackney, 136 NC 187, 48 SE 633. See personal representative.
Ballentine's law dictionary.
Anderson, W.S..
1998.
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