Definition of Decedent

1. Noun. Someone who is no longer alive. "I wonder what the dead person would have done"

Exact synonyms: Dead Person, Dead Soul, Deceased, Deceased Person, Departed
Generic synonyms: Individual, Mortal, Person, Somebody, Someone, Soul
Group relationships: Dead
Specialized synonyms: Infernal, Living Dead, Zombi, Zombie
Specialized synonyms: Lazarus
Derivative terms: Decease, Departed

Definition of Decedent

1. a. Removing; departing.

2. n. A deceased person.

Definition of Decedent

1. Noun. (legal chiefly US) A dead person. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Decedent

1. a deceased person [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decedent

decaying
decayless
decays
deccagynous
deccan hemp
deccapodous
deccie
deccies
decease
deceased
deceased person
deceaser
deceasers
deceases
deceasing
decedent (current term)
decedents
deceit
deceitful
deceitfull
deceitfully
deceitfulness
deceitfulnesses
deceitless
deceits
deceiv'd
deceivable
deceivableness
deceivably
deceive

Literary usage of Decedent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1919)
"The evidence for plaintiff tends to show that the decedent performed some work ... In the month of January, 1913, decedent left the farm in Gray- «in county ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"The evidence establishes that the necessary props were afforded decedent, and while one or two of them were too short to reach from the floor to the roof, ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"None of that amount, as the plaintiff alleges, was ever paid by the decedent, and the defendant, as his executor, having neglected and refused to pay the ..."

4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1903)
"405, involving the administration of a decedent's estate, and where it was contended that nonresident minors had a right to have the laws of the state of ..."

5. The Law of Collateral Attack on Judicial Proceedings by John McKee Van Fleet (1892)
"Residence of decedent or ward in Tennessee and Texas.—The supreme court of Tennessee in two late cases decided that the appointment of an administrator was ..."

6. Law of Wills, Executors and Administrators by James Schouler (1915)
"The same Subject; Sales and Bargains of the decedent. ... case of an incomplete delivery under the sale or bargain of the decedent, his representative ought ..."

7. The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, James Cockcroft, Lucius Polk McGehee, Charles Porterfield (1904)
"In the case of a resident decedent leaving personal property without the state, it is agreed that such property follows the domicil of the owner and that ..."

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