Perish
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
To come to an end; to cease to be; to die. What has never existed cannot be said to have perished. When two or more persons die by the same accident, as a shipwreck, no presumption arises that one perished before the other.
See Survivor.