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Cadaver

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

A dead human body; a corpse. Cadaver nullius in bonis, no one can have a right of property In a corpse.

3 Co. Inst. 110, 2 Bl. Comm. 429 ; Griffith v. Railroad Co.., 23 S. C. 32, 55 Am. Rep. 1.