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EXTREMIS Definition & Legal Meaning

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When a person is sick beyond the hope of recovery, and near death, he is said to be in extremis.Extremis probatis, praesumuntnr media. Extremes being proved, intermediate things are presumed. Tray. Lat Max. 207.

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