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simultaneous death

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.52 in modern English

Syllables
si-mul-ta-ne-ous death
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In the law of wills, the death of two persons, each of whom would inherit the estate of the other if deemed to have survived the other, where such deaths occur within a time period set by statute (typically 120 hours), because of which the law treats each person as if they had died before the other in determining the distribution of estates.

Inflected Forms

simultaneous deaths (plural)

Questions

What does simultaneous death mean?
In the law of wills, the death of two persons, each of whom would inherit the estate of the other if deemed to have survived the other, where such deaths occur within a time period set by statute (typically 120 hours), because of which the law treats each person as if they had died before the other in determining the distribution of estates.

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