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Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 31A-12.1

  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Decedent: means the person whose life is taken by the slayer as defined in subdivision (3) of this section. See North Carolina General Statutes 31A-3
  • Property: means any real or personal property and any right or interest therein. See North Carolina General Statutes 31A-3

This Article wholly supplants the common law rule preventing a person whose culpable negligence causes the death of a decedent from succeeding to any property passing by reason of the death of the decedent. (2006-107, s. 2.)