MORTUUS
Categories: Property
Definition (1910 Edition)
or rents of the thing pledged are not applied to the payment of the debt.
Lat. Dead. So in sheriffs return, mortuus est, he is dead. —Mortuns sine prole. Dead without issue. In genealogical tables often abbreviated to ‘sm. 8. p.”
Lat. Dead. So in sheriffs return, mortuus est, he is dead. —Mortuns sine prole. Dead without issue. In genealogical tables often abbreviated to ‘sm. 8. p.”
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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