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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.