One appointed to act in the place of another executor upon the happening of a certain event; e. p., if the latter should refuse the office. … [Read more...]

Service to another person or party who is authorized to receive legal documents on behalf of the named party in the documents. When another form of the delivery of court documents occurs that is substituted for personal service, which is the practice of handing the legal papers directly to the person being served. Examples of substitute service are leaving the documents with an … [Read more...]

Scotch law. Where an estate is settled on a long series of heirs, substituted one after another, in tailzie, the person first called in the tailzies, is the institute; the rest, the heirs of tailzie; or the substitutes. … [Read more...]

Latin: In Roman law, It was competent for a testator after instituting a hares (called the "hatres institutus") to substitute auother (called the "haeres substitutus") in his place in a certain event. If the event upon which the substitution was to take effect was the refusal of the instituted heir to accept the inheritance at all, then the substitution was called "vulgaris." … [Read more...]

(A) civil law. In the law of devises, it is the putting of one person in the place of another, so that he may, in default of ability in the former, or after him, have the benefit of a devise or legacy. 2. It is a species of subrogation made in two different ways; the first is direct substitution, and the latter a trust or fidei commissary substitution. The first or direct … [Read more...]