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DYING WITHOUT ISSUE Definition & Legal Meaning

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At .common law this phrase imports an indefinite failure ofissue, and not a dying without issue surviving at the time of the death of the first taker.But this rule has been changed in some of the states, by statute or decisions, and InEngland by St. 7 Wm. IV., and 1 Vict c. 26,

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