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death benefit
Matched in: Term death benefit
simultaneous death act
Matched in: Term simultaneous death act
Law Reform (UK)
(24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 41), all causes of action shall with certain exceptions survive on the death (after the 24th July, 1934) of any person against or for the benefit of his estate. See actio
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benefit
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viatical settlement
a person (as the owner) with a catastrophic or life-threatening illness receives compensation for less than the expected death benefit of the policy in return for an assignment, transfer, sale, devise, or bequest of the death benefit or … expected death benefit of the policy in return for an assignment, transfer, sale, devise, or bequest of the death benefit or ownership of the policy to the other party (as a company specializing in such transactions)
bill
of attainder 1 : a legislative act formerly permitted that attainted a person and imposed a sentence of death without benefit of a judicial trial see also attainder compare bill of pains and penalties in this entry
Bond
K. & E., 13th Edn. P. 277. The benefit passes to the survivors in the case of the death of any joint obligees, (English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 81, and the receipt of the survivors is sufficient,
wrongful death action
Matched in: Term wrongful death action
Settlement
real or personal property or both for the benefit of one person for his life, and after his death for the benefit of another person absolutely, or with a similar ultimate devolution for the use of several
Lapse
does not lapse by the death of the trustee in the testator's lifetime the legacy survives for the benefit of the beneficiary. Consult Jarman or Theobald on Wills; Roper on Legacies. … be a child or other issue of the testator, and should die leaving issue surviving at the testator's death, then, by s. 33 of the Wills Act, 1837 (7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 26), the
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