involuntary self-destruction
- involuntary self-destruction
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Death at one's own hand but unintended.
The expression includes all cases where a person, without intending to accomplish his own death, carelessly and negligently does acts which may naturally and probably result, and do in fact result, in death. It would thus include all cases where there exists on the part of such person any direct and immediate legal or moral responsibility for his own death. But as the term is used in a life insurance policy it would not include cases where the act of the insured contributed to shorten or terminate his life, without design or negligence on his part. Courtemanche v Independent Order of Foresters, 136 Mich 30, 98 NW 749.
Ballentine's law dictionary.
Anderson, W.S..
1998.
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