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Home Dictionary Name: funeralfuneral home
An establishment usually commercial where the bodies of dead persons are prepared for viewing before burial or cremation called also funeral parlor mortuary funeral chapel and informally undertakers The body may or may not be preserved by embalming before viewing or burial and in some cases the body is not exposed for viewing though present in a casket Often some form of memorial service is held for the deceased at the funeral home where friends and relatives may come to pay their respects to the dead and express condolence to the family The work of preparation of the body and many other arrangements related to the funeral and burial are carried out by an undertaker or mortician who manages the funeral home...
Funereal
Suiting a funeral pertaining to burial solemn as at a funereal pace...
funeral parlor
Same as funeral home...
Funerate
To bury with funeral rites...
Funeration
The act of burying with funeral rites...
Funeral expenses
Funeral expenses. An executor or administrator should bury the deceased testator or intestate suitably to the estate left, and the expense of the burial will be allowed before all other debts and charges; but if the personal representative be extravagant, he commits a devastavit, for which he will be answerable to the creditors or legatees....
Funebrial
Pertaining to a funeral or funerals funeral funereal...
Herald
Herald [fr. here, Sax., an army, and heald, a champion; herault, heraut, Fr.; herald, Ger.; araldo, Ital.; because it was part of his office to charge or challenge unto battle or combat], an officer who registers genealogies, adjusts ensigns armorial, regulates funerals, and carries messages between princes, and proclaims war and peace. Heralds were anciently called Dukes at Arms, probably from the Latin ducere ad arma; because the conducting of affairs concerning peace and war devolved upon them, their office being to carry messages to the enemy, and to proclaim war and peace. Hence the persons of heralds were deemed sacred by the law of nations, and were received and protected by belligerent powers, as flags of truce are in the present day. The three chief heralds are called Kings of Arms; of whom (1) Garter is the principal, instituted by Henry V. His office is to attend the Knights of the Garter at their solemnities, and to marshal the funerals of the nobility. (2) Clarencieux King...
Arvil-supper
Arvil-supper, a feast or entertainment made at a funeral in the north of England; arvil bread is bread delivered to the poor at funeral solenities, and arvil, arval, or arfal the burial or funeral rites, Cowel...
Debt
Debt [fr. debitum, Lat.], a sum of money due from one person to another. An action of debt lay where a person claimed the recovery of a liquidated or certain sum of money affirmed to be due to him; and it was generally founded on some contract alleged to have taken place between the parties, or on some matter of fact from which the law would imply a contract between them. This was debt in the debet, which was the principal and only common form. There is another species mentioned in the books, called debt in the detinet, which lay for the specific recovery of goods, under a contract to deliver them. An action of debt as a technical term is now obsolete. See PLEADINGS. The order of the payment of debts and expenses out of legal assets in an ordinary administration action in the Chancery Division of the High Court is as follows:-1. Funeral expenses, which in the case of an insolvent estate must be strictly reasonable and necessary only, the executor or administrator being personally liabl...
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