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DEATH BED, Scotch law. The incapacity to exercise the power of disposing of one's property after being attacked with a mortal disease.
2. It commences with the beginning of such disease.
3. There are two exceptions to this general rule, namely: 1. If he survive for sixty days after the act or, 2. If he go to kirk or market unattended. He is then said to be in legitima potestate, or in liege poustie. 1 Bell's Com. 84, 85.

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Death bed or dying declarations
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SEATTLE -- As it turns out, that whole drama about John Lackey rising from his death bed Monday to defeat the Seattle Mariners was slightly over-exaggerated.

ANGELS NOTEBOOK: LACKEY: I WASN'T THAT ILL by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

Consider Kathy Alden, the Springfield woman dying of leukemia who, while literally on her death bed, helped spearhead a "Last Wish" fund to raise money for a fellow chemo patient she had befriended.

Good work, out there; you know who you are by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

It was the custom, as exemplified by the emperor Constantine, to delay baptism as long as possible, sometimes until the death bed, so that the holy life expected of the baptized would not interfere with the responsibilities expected by the government or business or the army.

Ambrose of Milan's Method of Mystagogical Preaching. by Tietjen, John H. / Currents in Theology and Mission

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