Last Sickness
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
That of which a person dies. The last sickness includes the whole of the sickness of which the person dies, no matter of how long duration.
8 Me. 167.
The expenses of this sickness are generally entitled to a preference in payment of debts of an insolvent estate. Civ. Code La. art.
3166.
To prevent impositions, the statute of frauds requires that nuncupative wills shall be made during the testator's last sickness.
Roberts, Frauds, 556; 20 Johns. (N. Y.) 502.