predeceasedadj.n.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. i. 69 Will you mocke at an ancient Tradition began vppon an honourable respect, and worne as a memorable Trophee of predeceased valor? View more context for this quotation

1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. xxxvi. 87 They would succeed to the shares of their pre-deceased Fathers, by Right of Representation.

1833 in Statute Law Cape of Good Hope (1862) 293 The administration by the survivor of two spouses during the minority of the children of the predeceased spouse (boedelhouderschap).

1892 Times 10 Aug. 14/2 She..died intestate at Beyrout, leaving..seven grandchildren by a predeceased daughter.

1914 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 44 342 It is believed that when a person dies, the spirits of his pre-deceased kinsmen crowd round the death-bed.

2003 J. R. Bowen Islam, Law, & Equality in Indonesia ix. 223 Older Islamic jurisprudence excluded the children of predeceased heirs, but by 1991..the new Compilation was in effect.

1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. II. iii. viii. 365 The survivor has the fee of the whole, exclusive of the heir of the predeceased, in so far as the share of the predeceased remains free after payment of his debts.

1781 H. H. Kames Loose Hints upon Educ. vii. 169 Examples are many of a connection so intimate between two friends, as that the image of the predeceased was always present to the survivor.

1841 N. B. Doucet Fund. Princ. Laws Canada 276 The survivor of the said father and mother to enjoy the moveables and conquéts immoveables of the predeceased during the life of the survivor.

1922 A. Tilley Mod. France 355 The law of March 9, 1891, grants to the surviving party the right of usufruct in the estate of the predeceased.

2001 B. Craig in B. Lemire et al. Women & Credit iv. 53 As a rule, Lille marriage contracts also gave the survivor the usufruct of the other half of the communauté, and of the assets of the predeceased, (unless there were children, in which case the usufruct was reduced by half).