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PERISH Definition & Legal Meaning

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To come to an eud; to cease to be; to die. PERISHA3LE ordinarily means subject to speedy and natural decay. But. where the time contemplated is necessarily long, the terra may embrace property liable merely to material depreciation in value from other causes than such decay. Webster v. Peck, 31 Conn. 495.

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