Demise
De`mise´
DEMISE, contracts. In its most extended signification, it is a conveyance
either in fee, for life, or for years. In its more technical meaning, it is
a lease or conveyance for a term of years. Vide Cow. L. & T. Index, h.t.;
Ad. Eject. Index, h.t.; 2 Hill. Ab. 130; Com. Dig. h.t., and the heads
there referred to. According to Chief Justice Gibson, the term demise
strictly denotes a posthumous grant, and no more. 5 1 Whart. R. 278. See 4
Bing. N. C. 678; S. C. 33 Eng. C. L. R. 492; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1774, et seq.
DEMISE, persons. A term nearly synonymous with death. It is usually applied
in England to the death of the king or queen.
abalienation,
alienation,
amortization,
amortizement,
annihilation,
assignation,
assignment,
bane,
bargain and sale,
barter,
bequeathal,
biological death,
cash in,
cessation of life,
cession,
clinical death,
conferment,
conferral,
consignation,
consignment,
conveyance,
conveyancing,
crossing the bar,
curtains,
death,
death knell,
debt of nature,
decease,
deeding,
deliverance,
delivery,
depart,
departure,
die,
disposal,
disposition,
dissolution,
doom,
drop,
dying,
ebb of life,
end,
end of life,
ending,
enfeoffment,
eternal rest,
exchange,
exit,
expiration,
expire,
extinction,
extinguishment,
final summons,
finger of death,
giving,
go,
going,
going off,
grave,
hand of death,
jaws of death,
knell,
last debt,
last muster,
last rest,
last roundup,
last sleep,
lease and release,
leaving life,
loss of life,
making an end,
parting,
pass,
pass away,
passing,
passing away,
passing over,
perishing,
quietus,
release,
rest,
reward,
sale,
sentence of death,
settlement,
settling,
shades of death,
shadow of death,
silence,
sleep,
somatic death,
succumb,
summons of death,
surrender,
trading,
transfer,
transference,
transmission,
transmittal,
vesting