representative of a deceased person

representative of a deceased person
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. . 1998.

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