Rigor Mortis - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: rigor mortisRigor mortis
Rigor mortis, means the temporary stiffening of a body's joints and muscles after death, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1327...
causa mortis
causa mortis [Latin mortis causa in contemplation of death] : made or done in contemplation of one's impending death [rejected his claim that the gift was causa mortis "W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al."] usually used following the term it modifies see also gift causa mortis at gift compare inter vivos ...
Rigorous
Manifesting exercising or favoring rigor allowing no abatement or mitigation scrupulously accurate exact strict severe relentless as a rigorous officer of justice a rigorous execution of law a rigorous definition or demonstration...
Rigorous imprisonment for life
Rigorous imprisonment for life, means if a portion of the period of transportation for life is to be treated as sentence of rigorous imprisonment for the same term, naturally, the entire transportation period is to be treated as 'rigorous imprisonment for life', Mohd. Munna v. Union of India, (2005) 7 SCC 417....
donatio mortis causa
donatio mortis causa [Latin, literally, gift in contemplation of death] : donation mortis causa at donation ...
mortis causa
mortis causa : causa mortis ...
Causa mortis
Causa mortis (in case of death). See Donatio Mortis Causa....
Donatio mortis causa
Donatio mortis causa, a gift of personal property in prospect of death; a death-bed disposition; an inchoate gift of personalty consummated by the giver's death.It is derived from the Civil Law; Justinian's Inst. Lib. 2, tit. 7, shows its nature. To render this kind of gift valid, it (1) must be made by the giver, when ill, in anticipation of his death; (2) must be intended to take effect only upon his death by his existing illness, for his recovery from that illness, or his subsequent personal revocation of the gift, as by resuming its possession, will defeat it; and (3) a traditio or delivery, either actual or symbolical, of the subject of the gift, or of the instrument which represents it, must be made to the donee, either for his own use, or upon trust for another person, or for a particular purpose. The gift of a cheque upon the donor's banker is not good as a donatio mortis causa, because it is a gift which can only be made effectual by obtaining payment of it in the donor's life...
Mortis causa donatio
Mortis causa donatio. See DONATIO MORTIS CAUSA....
donation mortis causa
donation mortis causa see donation ...
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