According to the current legal provisions, successor representation is that legal institution which allows a legal heir of a more distant degree in relation to the defunct, named as a representative, to gather the successor rights of his ascendant, called a represented, whether he renounced his inheritance, he is undignified or he proceeded the time of succession. Successor representation is a distinctive institution from that of representation both in regard to its legal nature and in regard

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... the effects it produces, a fact which is clearly pointed out in the new Romanian Civil Code.