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- noun law In the law of
wills , the death of two persons, each of whom wouldinherit theestate of the other if deemed to havesurvived the other, where such deaths occur within a time period set bystatute (typically 120 hours), because of which the law treats each person as if they had died before the other in determining the distribution of estates.
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