Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.
Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.
common disaster clause — In insurance or will, a clause that provides for an alternative beneficiary in event both the insured (testator) and beneficiary (legatee) die in a common disaster. See simultaneous death clause … Black's law dictionary
common disaster clause — In insurance or will, a clause that provides for an alternative beneficiary in event both the insured (testator) and beneficiary (legatee) die in a common disaster. See simultaneous death clause … Black's law dictionary
common disaster — A calamitous occurrence causing the death of two or more persons allied in interest as husband and wife, heirs of a common ancestor, or devisees of a common testator, the pertinency of the term in the law involving the succession to property… … Ballentine's law dictionary
common disaster — Insurance. the death of an insured party and a beneficiary occurring at the same time in the same accident. * * * … Universalium
common disaster — Situation in which the insured and beneficiary appear to die simultaneously with no clear indication or evidence of which died first. See Simultaneous Death Act … Black's law dictionary
common disaster — Situation in which the insured and beneficiary appear to die simultaneously with no clear indication or evidence of which died first. See Simultaneous Death Act … Black's law dictionary
common disaster — noun : the simultaneous death of an insured and his beneficiary * * * Insurance. the death of an insured party and a beneficiary occurring at the same time in the same accident … Useful english dictionary
common — com·mon 1 adj 1 a: of or relating to a community at large: public common defense b: known to the community a common thief 2: belonging to or shared by two or more persons or things or by all members of a group … Law dictionary
disaster — I noun adversity, affliction, bale, bane, blight, blunder, breakdown, brutum fulmen, calamitas, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, clades, collapse, contretemps, crushing reverse, deabacle, devastation, downfall, emergency, extremity,… … Law dictionary
disaster — See also common disaster, (common) … Black's law dictionary
