successoral

English

Etymology

From successor +‎ -al.

Adjective

successoral (not comparable)

1. (chiefly law) Pertaining to a successor or succession.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 47:

     In July 1717, a commission established by Orléans to adjudicate the issue had emphatically denied the successoral claims of the two brothers, and the Regent declared himself in a state of ‘happy powerlessness to alienate the crown's domain’.

French

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Adjective

successoral (feminine successorale, masculine plural successoraux, feminine plural successorales)

1. successoral

Further reading

• “successoral”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.