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Caduke

Perishable frail transitory

Bona peritura

Perishable goods

Inconsistent

co-extensive and at the same time so contrary and repugnant in their terms and impact that one must perish wholly if the other were to prevail at all - then, only then, are they inconsistent, Basti Sugar

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Impossibility

by its nature, such contract will not bind him--lex non cogit ad impossibilia, e.g., where the subject-matter has perished before date of contract, or never existed [see (English) Sale of Goods Act, 1893, s. 6; and Conturier

Reus lasa majestatis punitur, ut pereat unus ne pereant omnes

pereat unus ne pereant omnes (4 Co. 124) a traitor is punished that one and not all may perish.

Decay

or dissolution to waste away to decline to fail to become weak corrupt or disintegrated to rot to perish as a tree decays fortunes decay hopes decay

common

or more persons or things or by all members of a group [when the insured and the beneficiary perish in a disaster] [ areas of the building] 3 : of or relating to common stock [ shares]

Damp off

To decay and perish through excessive moisture

Presumption of survivorship

Presumption of survivorship. Where two or more persons perish by the same calamity, the Civil Law presumes that the stronger survived. The common law of England recognized

Omnia que jure contrahuntur, contrario jure pereunt

Omnia que jure contrahuntur, contrario jure pereunt [Lat.], all things which are contracted by law perish by a contrary law.

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