claim against decedent's estate
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A debt or demand of a pecuniary nature which could have been enforced in law or equity against the decedent in his lifetime and could have been reduced to a simple money judgment. 31 Am J2d Ex & Ad § 276.
Most courts have held that the term as used in a statute relating to the competency of interested witnesses in the prosecution of a "claim or demand" against an estate, refers to the assertion of any right against an estate. According to this view the words arc not restricted to a money claim, but apply also to any other demand which would tend to deplete the estate. Other courts have limited these terms to such claims as can give rise to a suit calling for a money judgment. Anno: 41 ALR 1044.
Ballentine's law dictionary.
Anderson, W.S..
1998.
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