Inquisitio Post Mortem
Concept of “Inquisitio Post Mortem”
Traditional meaning of inquisitio post mortem in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) Inquest after death; an inquest of office held on the death of a tenant in chivalry; see 2nd Book (“The Rights of Things”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 68; 3 id. 258.
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Notes and References
- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Inquisitio Post Mortem”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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