Commorientes
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. [from comm^rire, to die together.] In the civil law. Persons dying together, in the same place, or from the same cause.
Huhhack's Evid. of Succession, 187. Dig. 84. 5. 8, 9, 16. 2 Kent's Com. 435, 436, note. 8 Meicalfs R. 371. 1 Barbour's Ch. R. 264.