2. Verb. (third-person singular of predecease) ¹
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Definition of Predeceases
1. predecease [v] - See also: predecease
Lexicographical Neighbors of Predeceases
Literary usage of Predeceases
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Key and Elphinstone's Compendium of Precedents in Conveyancing by Thomas Key, Howard Warburton Elphinstone (1899)
"... as to OPERATE whether she SURVIVES or predeceases her HUSBAND. Bequest of
LEGACIES and ANNUITY. SPECIAL GIFT of annuity FUND after death of annuitant. ..."
2. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1844)
"... deed predeceases the granter?—there is none whatever as regards the practical
and only material point which can touch the final adjudication of the ..."
3. American law reports annotated (1920)
"No part of store property purchased by a man and wife with funds derived from
property held by entire- ties passes to his administrator where he predeceases ..."
4. Summary of the Law of Intestate Succession in Scotland: With a Brief Outline by Peter Hay Cameron (1884)
"Division where Wife predeceases.1—"Upon the dissolution of a marriage by the
pre-decease of the wife without issue, tbe goods falling under communion(£) ..."
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