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FS Law Glossary Exam 1 Reversed Flashcards

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a proportional reduction of a legacy under a will when assets out of which such legacy are payable are not sufficient to pay it in full

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Abatement

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the physical possession of the dead human body or other property.

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Actual custody

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the extinction or withdrawal of an inheritance because the decedent did not own the named property at the time of death.

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Ademption

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a governmental body created by legislation empowered to regulate and issue rules and regulations.

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Administrative agency

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that body of law created by Federal and State administrative agencies through implementation of powers and duties in the form of rules, regulations, orders and decisions (e.g., OSHA, FTC, state board rules and regulations).

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Administrative law

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the man/woman who is appointed by the court to settle the estate of a decedent who died without a last Will and Testament. (see also personal representative)

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Administrator/ Administratrix

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those drivers under the directions and control of the funeral establishment which is liable for the driver’s negligent actions

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Agent driver

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the process by which a person engages in learning the practice of funeral directing and/or embalming under instruction, direction or personal supervision of a duly licensed funeral director and/or embalmer.

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Apprenticeship (internship/resident training)

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a person who receives personal property from another as a bailment.

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Bailee

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a delivery of personal property by one person (the bailor) to another (the bailee) who holds the property for a certain purpose under an express or implied-in-fact contract

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Bailment

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a person who delivers personal property to another as a bailment.

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Bailor

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a gift of personal property by will.

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Bequest (legacy)

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laws, ordinances and government regulations setting forth requirements for construction, maintenance, operation, occupancy, use or appearance of buildings.

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Building code

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a dead human body intended solely for scientific study and dissection.

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Cadaver

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appellate court decisions that establish precedential principles.

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Case law

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an addition or amendment of a last will and testament executed with the same formality of the will.

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Codicil

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non legislated principles and rules of action predicated upon usages and customs which the court considers binding on the community.

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Common law

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the fundamental law that establishes the government, limits what government can and cannot do and states the underlying principles to which the government will conform.

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Constitution

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an agreement between two or more competent persons which is enforceable by law.

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Contract

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the situation whereby one party has a right to acquire actual custody/possession of the dead body although another party has actual physical possession.

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Constructive custody

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the body of a dead human being, deprived of life, but not yet entirely disintegrated.

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Corpse (dead human body)

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status associated with funeral service practitioner/funeral establishment who becomes legal protector of dead human body from time of removal until final disposition.

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Custodian

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relationship to decedent of his relatives; each generation is one degree, counting to a common ancestor.

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Degree of kindred

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a gift of real estate; the act/process of transferring ownership of real property. (applies to both transfers as well as by wills.)

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Devise

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the person who receives real property through the process of a devise.

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Devisee

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the attention reasonably expected from, and ordinarily exercised by, a person who seeks to satisfy a legal requirement or to discharge an obligation.

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Due diligence

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exists when one person appoints an agent; agent status which will become or remain effective in the event the original party should later become incapacitated.

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Durable power of attorney

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forfeiture of a decedent’s property to the state in the absence of heirs.

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Escheat

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the property of a deceased person, both real and/or personal.

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Estate

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the physical and/or emotional separation for a period of time showing the lack of affection, trust and regard.

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Estrangement

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a man/woman appointed by the will of a deceased person to carry out the provisions thereof and settle the estate. (see also personal representative)

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Executor/ Executrix

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an agency of the federal government created in 1914 to promote free and fair competition by prevention of trade restraints, price fixing, false advertising and other unfair methods of competition.

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Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

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the conclusive performance of services with respect to the dead human body by one of 48 the legally recognized methods.

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Final disposition

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a person properly licensed, engaged in, or conducting, or holding himself/herself out as being engaged in preparing, other than by embalming, for the burial or disposition of dead human bodies.

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Funeral director (Funeral service practitioner)

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a facility used in the care and preparation for the funeral and/or final disposition of dead human bodies.

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Funeral establishment

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that branch of law which relates to matters concerned with the disposal of the dead and regulation of funeral directors/embalmers and funeral establishments.

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Funeral service law (mortuary law/mortuary jurisprudence)

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a person properly licensed, engaged in, or conducting, or holding himself/herself out as being engaged in preparing, other than by embalming, for the burial or disposition of dead human bodies.

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Funeral service practitioner

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38
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a written instrument authorizing one person to do anything for the principal. In other words, one party has full power of attorney for another party.

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General power of attorney

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the intentional failure to perform a manifest duty in reckless disregard of the consequences as affecting the life or property of another.

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Gross negligent act

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a judicial appointment of one person to administer the affairs of another person who is incompetent by virtue of age or legal disability.

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Guardian

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one who inherits, or is entitled to receive property by will or by laws of intestacy.

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Heir

42
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a will written entirely by the hand of the testator/testatrix.

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Holographic will

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the occupier of a house; one who owns or controls real estate where a death occurs.

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Householder

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the estate which passes from the decedent to his/her heirs.

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Inheritance

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the condition of the estate of a deceased person which is unable to pay the debts of the decedent and/or the estate.

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Insolvent estate

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the method used to distribute property owned by a person who dies without a valid will

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Intestate succession

47
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listing and valuation of a decedent’s assets by a personal representative of the estate.

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Inventory

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one who has been invited on the property by the landowner; persons coming to a funeral home for the purpose of attending funerals, viewing remains, or engaging the funeral director’s services are some examples.

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Invitee

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one’s relatives collectively; referring to blood relationship (legally, the surviving spouse is not a kin).

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Kin

50
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those rules of conduct commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong.

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Law

51
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a gift of personal property by will.

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Legacy

52
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one who inherits personal property under a will.

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Legatee

53
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responsibility for actions and/or other debts; the quality or state of being legally obligated or accountable.

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Liability

54
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a claim or charge against real or personal property for payment of some debt (there can be no ___ against a dead human body for it is not property).

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Lien

55
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automotive equipment made available for hire.

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Livery

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a document which governs the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from an individual in the event of an incurable or irreversible condition that will cause death within a relatively short time, and which becomes effective when such person is no longer able to make decisions regarding his/her medical treatment.

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Living will

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improper or negligent professional act by a professional person.

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Malpractice

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mental suffering resulting from grief, severe disappointment, indignation, wounded pride, shame, public humiliation, despair, etc., and may be accompanied by physical injury or by an outrageous intentional or grossly negligent act.

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Mental anguish

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an act showing inherent baseness or vileness of principle or action; shameful wickedness; depravity.

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Moral turpitude

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that branch of law which relates to matters concerned with the disposal of the dead and regulation of funeral directors/embalmers and funeral establishments.

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Mortuary law

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any alteration or change made to a dead human body from the time of death, other than by natural causes.

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Mutilation

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failure to exercise ordinary care; omission to do something which a reasonable prudent person would do under ordinary or similar circumstances or the doing of something which a reasonable and prudent person would not do; the lack of due care (exercised by a wrongdoer who has not acted as a reasonable person would).

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Negligence

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oral will declared or dictated by testator during last illness before appropriate witnesses to dispose of personal property and afterwards reduced to writing (not valid in all states).

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Nuncupative will

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a law passed by a local municipal governing body (e.g., zoning, building, safety, etc.).

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Ordinance

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an act with complete disregard for proper conduct which transcends the bounds of common decency.

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Outrageous act

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the method of dividing an estate by which an equal share is given to each of a number of persons, all of whom stand in equal degree of kindred to the decedent.

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Per capita

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person who represents and administers the estate of deceased persons; executor and/or administrator of an estate.

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Personal representative

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the method of proportionately dividing an estate between beneficiaries according to their deceased ancestor’s share.

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Per stirpes

69
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the inherent power of every government to make reasonable laws to protect the safety, health, morals and general welfare of its citizens.

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Police power

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an instrument granting someone authority to act as agent or attorney-in-fact for the grantor; an ordinary power of attorney is revocable and automatically terminates upon the death or incapacity of the principal.

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Power of attorney

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a decision of a higher court (e.g., appellate or supreme court) which is thereafter followed as an example in subsequent similar cases.

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Precedent

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a claim which is accorded a priority, advantage or privilege; a superior claim or right of payment as against another of the same kind or class. The first claim to be paid is the highest preferred claim and superior to all other claims.

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Preferred claim

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the order in which claims will be paid when there are insufficient assets to pay all of the claims , or the order in which certain classes of people have the right to make decisions concerning the disposition of the dead body

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Priority

74
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the process of preserving the estate, determining the validity of a will and distributing the estate to the proper heirs.

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Probate

75
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a court having jurisdiction over estates.

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Probate court

76
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the property of a decedent that is subject to administration by the executor or administrator of an estate.

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Probate estate

77
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a fictional contract created or implied by a court for a person who is unable to contract for himself (e.g., medical care, death); an obligation which law creates in the absence of agreement; is invoked by courts where there is unjust enrichment.

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Quasi contract

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the accepted theory of the legal status of a dead human body; rights associated with the body are as if it were property for the purpose of disposition only.

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Quasi-property theory

79
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an action to recover possession of wrongfully withheld personal property.

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Replevin

80
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the omission or cancellation of an instrument, act, license or promise.

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Revocation

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enactments by an administrative body within the jurisdiction of that agency.

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Rules and regulations

82
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a nuncupative will, informal in nature, in which a soldier in the field or sailor at sea may dispose of personal property only.

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Soldiers and sailors will

83
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an estate in which the assets exceed the liabilities.

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Solvent estate

84
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a written instrument authorizing one person to act as an agent for another effective only upon a certain event occurring.

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Springing power of attorney

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a policy of courts to stand by a precedent and apply it to all future cases where the facts are substantially the same; to stand by things decided.

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Stare decisis

86
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a law enacted by a federal or state legislative body

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Statute

87
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law created by legislative bodies in contrast to law generated by judicial opinions (case law) and administrative bodies.

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Statutory law

88
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the condition of leaving a will at death.

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Testate

89
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a man who makes a valid will.

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Testator

90
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a woman who makes a valid will.

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Testatrix

91
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agreements which involve the funeral director/funeral home because the family being served has contracted with someone else for services or merchandise also available from the funeral home i.e. caskets, vaults, urns, pre-need insurance, etc.

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Third party contracts

92
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a private or civil wrong, other than breach of contract, for which there may be action for damages.

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Tort

93
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one who intentionally and without consent or privilege enters another’s property.

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Trespasser

94
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account established by one individual to be held for the benefit of another (as a method of payment of funeral expenses); creates a fiduciary responsibility. Money paid to a funeral home for future services is placed in an account with the funeral home as trustee for the benefit of another.

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Trust Account

95
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one who holds title to property or another position of trust to a beneficiary; in funeral arrangements, the person who has the right to control the funeral does so on behalf of all survivors.

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Trustee

96
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a model law intended to achieve uniformity in probate proceedings throughout the U.S.

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Uniform Probate Code (UPC)

97
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those drivers not under the control of the funeral director.

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Volunteer driver

98
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an instrument executed with required formality, by persons making disposition of their property to take effect upon their death.

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Will

99
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a law passed by a municipality by virtue of the police power which regulates and prescribes the kind of building, residences, or businesses that shall be built and used in different parts of the municipality.

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Zoning ordinance

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