Decedens
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. [from decedere, q. v.] A person dying; a deceased person; a decedent. Cum post mortem alicujus decedentis intestati; when after the death of a person dying intestate, Stat. Westm. 2, c.
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