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failure of issue: lack of living issue (as of a person named to take under a will) at deathdefinite failure of issue: a failure of issue determined at a specific time set in a will (as at the death of a named taker)indefinite failure of issue: a failure of issue for which no time period is fixed in a will
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster. 1996.
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n.The condition of producing no children to inherit one’s estate; dying childless.
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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A situation in which a person dies without children or other direct descendants who could have inherited property.Category: Wills, Trusts & Estates → Estates, Executors & Probate CourtCategory: Wills, Trusts & Estates → Wills
Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. Gerald N. Hill, Kathleen Thompson Hill. 2009.
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n. In trusts and estate law, that a decedent had no children to inherit his or her estate.
Webster's New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000.
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Dying without having any children or without surviving children.
Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.
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Dying without having any children or without surviving children.
Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.
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n.when someone dies leaving no children or other direct descendants.
Law dictionary. EdwART. 2013.