Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    Death.

  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    In the civll and old English law. Dcath; departure. Decet tamen' principem servare leges quibus ipse servatus est. It behoves, indeed, the prince to keep the laws by which he himself is preserved.