Post Mortem - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: post mortemPost-mortem
Post-mortem (after death), as a pot mortem examina-tion of a corpse by a surgeon, in order to discover the cause of death. Such an examination may be ordered by a coroner under the (English) Coroners Act, 1887, s. 21. See CORONER....
post mortem
post mortem : done, occurring, or collected after death n : autopsy ...
post mortem examination
post mortem examination : autopsy ...
Post mortem
After death as post mortem rigidity...
Collatione facta uni post mortem alterius
Collatione facta uni post mortem alterius, a writ directed to justices of the Common Pleas, commanding them to direct their writ to a bishop, for the admitting a clerk in the place of another presented by the King, who during the suit between the King and the bishop's clerk is departed this life; for judgment once passed for the King's clerk, and he dying before admittance, the King may bestow his presentation to another, Cun. Law Dict.; reg. Brev. 31 b....
Inquisitio post mortem
Inquisitio post mortem (inquest after death). This was an inquisition taken after the death of a tenant in capite (a class comprising at one time almost all the men of property in the kingdom) in which the death of the deceased tenant and the name and age of his heir were found by a jury and returned of record. As evidence of pedigrees these inquisitions were of the utmost value. See Hubback on Succession, p. 584....
Justum non est aliquem post mortem facere bastardum qui toto tempore vita sua pro legitimo habebatur
Justum non est aliquem post mortem facere bastardum qui toto tempore vita sua pro legitimo habebatur [Lat.], It is not just to make anyone a bastard after his death when for his whole life he was taken to be legitimate....
autopsy
autopsy pl: -sies : an examination of a body after death usually involving dissection esp. to determine the cause of death called also post mortem post mortem examination autopsy vt ...
Costotome
An instrument chisel or shears to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity in post mortem examinations and dissections...
Enterotome
A kind of scissors used for opening the intestinal canal as in post mortem examinations...
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