1725 Information for Thomas Earl of Dundonald 26 In the Event of the Lady's Predecease.

a1765 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) iii. ix. §21 Upon the dissolution of a marriage by the predecease of the wife without issue.

1765 J. Campbell et al. Decisions of Court of Session 4 In this case, it was a chance whether the delay might not have proved advantageous to George, by the predecease of William or Janet.

1839 Times 13 Dec. 6/6 In the event of the latter's predecease, he gave it to her absolutely.

1888 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 13 381 Her consent..had no reference to the rights arising to her next of kin upon her own pre-decease.

1917 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 37 205 And (accidents apart) their chances of predecease were as nearly equal as possible.

1985 Times 27 Aug. 12/3 He left..the residue..in the event of his predecease to the Jewish Blind Society.

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. M2^v If children prædecease progenitours, We are their ofspring and they none of ours. View more context for this quotation

1749 Information for Patrick Carnegie 3 It happened that the Daughter of the second Marriage did predecease her Brother.

1765 J. Campbell et al. Decisions of Court of Sessions 196 The obligation is only conditional, depending on the claimant's surviving her mother as well as her father: so that if she predecease her mother, nothing will be due.

1828 W. Scott Jrnl. 24 May (1941) 252 Burke was under the strange hallucination that his son who predeceased him was a man of greater talents than himself.

1858 W. E. Gladstone Stud. Homer III. 32 Several of the heroes who predeceased the war.

1872 F. Jacox Aspects of Authorship xxii. 370 How continually do the words predecease (as they say in Scotland) the author of them!

1936 Sun (Baltimore) 16 Apr. 10/8 Kimmey's first cousins would get a $60,474 estate if it is proved his wife predeceased him.

1963 Times 9 Jan. 9/7 Inscriptions..recall as particular human beings the generations which have predeceased us.

1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 1 May c2/6 She married Robert O. Bowen, who predeceased her.

1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. iv. 44 If the Wife predecease, her Executours have the half, or third of her Husbands Moveables.

a1765 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) iii. ix. §21 Where the husband predeceases, neither widow nor children can claim a right in any part of the heirship moveables.

1875 H. Ellison Stones from Quarry 324 But thou once lost, if thou thus pre-decease, And break thy promise.

1966 Times 14 July 12/5 The rights of a bastard (and his legitimate issue in his place if he predeceases) to share on his mother's intestacy.

2004 Financial Times (Nexis) 6 Nov. 25 My fixed annuity..will pay her..8,000 a year (no matter marital status) should I predecease.

1862 T. Mackenzie Stud. Roman Law iv. viii. 291 [This] might have been claimed by the predeceaser, upon collation, had he survived the intestate.

1880 J. Muirhead Inst. of Gaius & Rules of Ulpian Digest 506 The praetors admitted the survivor of husband or wife to bonorum possessio ab intestato of the predeceaser next after cognates.

1995 C. Ricks Beckett's Dying Words i. 9 Beckett has his predecessors, these being at root the same thing etymologically as predeceasers.