1862 T. Mackenzie iv. viii. 291 [This] might have been claimed by the predeceaser, upon collation, had he survived the intestate.
1880 J. Muirhead Digest 506 The praetors admitted the survivor of husband or wife to bonorum possessio ab intestato of the predeceaser next after cognates.
1995 C. Ricks i. 9 Beckett has his predecessors, these being at root the same thing etymologically as predeceasers.