Dead's Part
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In Scotch law
That portion of the property of a deceased person which remained over the jus relictas (share of the widow), and the children's legi Hm, (lawful portion;) and so called because the deceased had full power over it, and might give it to whom he pleased. Frsk, Inst, b.
3, tit. 9, §§ 16, 18.