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Living person

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Hermit

A person who retires from society and lives in solitude a recluse an anchoret especially one who so lives from religious motives

Survivorship

Survivorship, the living or one of two or more persons after the death of the other or others. See COMMORIENTES; JOINT … Survivorship, the living or one of two or more persons after the death of the other or others. See COMMORIENTES; JOINT TENANCY. In questions of construction of wills

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Solitaire

A person who lives in solitude a recluse a hermit

Marchman

A person living in the marches between England and Scotland or Wales

Neighbor

A person who lives near another one whose abode is not far off

Wills

Wills. A will is the valid disposition by a living person, to take effect after his death, of his disposable property. ''But in law ultima voluntas in scriptis is … or tenements are devised, and testamentum, when it concerneth chattels': Co. Litt. 111 a. Depository of Will of Living Person.-By the (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 172, replacing s. 91 of the Court of Probate Act, 1857:- There

Family

Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd Edn. the word 'Family' means the group consisting of parents and their children, whether living together or not; in wider sense, all those who are nearly connected by blood or affinity; a person's

Husband and wife

husband did not assent to his wife's contract. In the case of necessaries, where husband and wife are living together, the presumption is that the wife has the husband's authority to pledge his credit for necessaries suitable … Husband and wife. the Common Law treated them, for most purposes, as one person, giving, with exceptions comparatively unimportant, the whole of a woman's property to her husband for his absolute use,

Marriage

1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 28), validating marriages by G.F.W. Ellis, a sham parson who held a living. As to publication of banns or misnomers in surrogate's license, see above. In a notice to a registrar … licenses are granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury on special grounds, as a matter of discretion or to persons of high rank. No period of residence is necessary, and they may authorise marriage at any hour or

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