common disaster

common disaster
A calamitous occurrence causing the death of two or more persons allied in interest as husband and wife, heirs of a common ancestor, or devisees of a common testator, the pertinency of the term in the law involving the succession to property where it is impossible to determine which of the two or more persons who suffered death survived the longest. The disaster which results in the death of two or more persons whose relationship to one another by contract, such as an insurance contract in which one is named as the beneficiary of a policy upon the life of the other, makes the time of death material. 29A Am J Rev ed Ins § 1653.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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