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causa mortis

of death] : made or done in contemplation of one's impending death [rejected his claim that the gift was causa mortis

detainer

continued detention of the prisoner or notification of the prisoner's impending release compare extradition

gift

a gift of esp. personal property made in contemplation of impending death that is delivered with the intent that the gift

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instance

Latin instantia, from Latin, the fact of being present or impending, vehemence in speech, urgency, from instant- instans insistent, pressing, from

Imminent

Threatening to occur immediately near at hand impending said especially of misfortune or peril

Impendence

The state of impending the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon

Impendent

Impending threatening

Impending

Hanging over overhanging suspended so as to menace imminet threatening

Deathbed or Dying Declarations

dissolution; it is sufficient if he apprehend it to be impending. See Taylor on Evid., 12th Edn., ss. 714 et seq.

Flagrant necessity

illegal act, as an assault to remove a man from impending danger.

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