Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUC-CESS'OR, n. [L.]

One that succeeds or follows; one that takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased king; the successor of a president or governor; a man's son and successor. A gift to a corporation, either of lands or of chattels, without naming their successors, vests an absolute property in them so long as the corporation subsists. – Blackstone.