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Death penalty
Death penalty, means death by hanging. The punishment only for high treason and piracy with violence. The capital punishment for murder was abolished by the murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act, 1965 and a sentence of...
death qualification
death qualification : the process of excluding a juror from the jury of a case in which the death penalty may be imposed on the grounds that the juror's objection to the death penalty would prevent...
death row
death row : a prison area housing inmates sentenced to death death row adj
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simultaneous death act
simultaneous death act : an act providing for the disposition of property or insurance benefits when there is no sufficient evidence that persons (as spouses) died other than simultaneously (as in an accident) NOTE: The simultaneous...
wrongful death
wrongful death : a death caused by the negligent, willful, or wrongful act, neglect, omission, or default of another [sought damages for the wrongful death of their murdered daughter]
wrongful death action
wrongful death action : an action that is brought by and in the name of the personal representative (as a spouse or parent) of one who dies a wrongful death and that seeks damages for the...
Civil death
Civil death. A man is said to be civilly dead (civiliter mortuus) when he has been attainted of treason or felony, and, in former times, when he adjured the realm or went into a monastery. The...
Death intestate
Death intestate, means death without leaving a will. If is not clear whether it would apply to a partial intestacy in respect of any particular property, Whitmore v. Lambert, (1955) 2 All ER 147.
Foetal death
Foetal death, means absence of all evidence of life prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception irrespective of the duration of pregnancy. [Registration of Births and Deaths Act,...
death tax
death tax : a tax assessed on the transfer of property (as an estate, inheritance, legacy, or succession) after the transferor's death compare estate tax, generation-skipping transfer tax, gift tax
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