Deathbed Deed
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In Scotch law
A deed made by a person while laboring under a distemper of which he afterwards died.
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Inst lib.
3, tit. 8, 8 96.
A deed is understood to be in death bed if before signing and delivery thereof the grantor was sick, and never convalesced thereafter.
1 Forbes* Inst part 3, b. 2, c. 4, tit. 1, sec. 1.