Mors
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Lat. Death. Mors dicitur ultimum supplicium. Death is called the “last punishment,” the “extremity of punishment.”
3 Inst. 212.
Mors omnia solvit
Death dissolves all things. Jenk. Cent. p.
160, case 2.
Applied to the case of the death of a party to an action.