Search results for: “death”
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Brain Death
With the growing capability of modern medicine to use machines to take over the performance of human life functions, thus to keep moribund people from death in the old sense of cessation of breathing, heartbeat and circulation, (see alive), there has come to be a felt need for some […]
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Causing Death
Causing death by careless in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of causing death by careless.ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Enforcement Officer Police Officer Law Enforcement Agency Further […]
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Presumption of Death
At common law, if it is proved that for a period of not less than seven years no information concerning a person has been received by those who would naturally hear from him if he were alive and that such enquiries and searches that the circumstances naturally suggest have been made, a […]
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Boiling To Death
In England, between 1530 and 1544, the prescribed punishment for murder by poison….
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After the death
Words which, when used in a conveyance of real property, indicate that the conveyed estate vests immediately, but right to its enjoyment is postpaid during the life of another, e.g., To Doe, and after the death of Doe, to Roe and his heirs, means that Roe gets an immediate estate in […]
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Action for death
See wrongful death….
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Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
A policy of accident insurance covering accidental death and accidental maiming, i.e., the loss of some discrete part of the body, e.g., hand, leg, eye, etc….
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Absence as Evidence of Death Act
One of the Uniform Laws. Adopted in only a few jurisdictions….
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Transfer-On-Death Deed
Transfer-On-Death Deed…
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Transfer-On-Death
Transfer-On-Death…
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Payable-On-Death Designation
Payable-On-Death Designation…
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Gift In Contemplation Of Death
Gift In Contemplation Of Death…
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Contemplation Of Death
Contemplation Of Death…
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Natural Death
Death by visitation of the Creator; death from the unassisted operation of natural causes….
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Simultaneous Death
The death of two or more persons in a common disaster or under circumstances where it cannot be ascertained who was the first to die or as to who survived the other. Under statutes relating to simultaneous deaths, generally in such instances the property of each, is to be disposed of as if that […]