Extremis
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
When a person is sick beyond the hope of recovery, and he afterwards dies, he is said to be in extremis. A will made in this state is liable to be impeached; but if made without undue influence by a person of sound mind, it is valid. The declarations of persons in extremis, when made with a full consciousness of approaching death, are admissible in evidence when the death of the person making them is the subject of the charge, and the circumstances of the death the subject of such declarations.
2 B. & C. 605; S.C.
9 Engl. C. L. Rep. 196; and see 15 John. 286; 1 John. Rep. 159; 2 John. R. 31; 7 John. 95; 2 Car. Law Repos. 102.