Death-Bed Deed
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In Scotch law
A deed made by a person while laboring under a distemper of which he afterwards died.
Ersk. Inst. 8, 8, 96.
A deed is understood to be in death-bed, if, before signing and delivery thereof, the grantor was sick, and never convalesced thereafter.
1 Forbes, Inst. pt. 3, b. 2, ¢. 4, tit. 1,§ 1.
But it is not necessary that he should be actually confined to his bed at the time of making the deed.
Bell.