A durable power of attorney that provides someone (also called an agent or attorney-in-fact) with the power to make important health care decisions for you in the event you become incapacitated and unable to make those decisions yourself. The agent or person with this power may also be referred to as a health care proxy or patient advocate. … [Read more...]

In the civil law. Double the price of a thing. Dig. 21, 2, 2. … [Read more...]

Lat. During. A word of limitation in old conveyances. Co. Litt 234b. Durante absentia. During absence. In some jurisdictions, administration of a decedent's estate is said to be granted durante absentia in cases where the absence of the proper proponents of the will, or of an executor, delays or imperils the settlement of the estate. Durante bene placito. During good pleasure. … [Read more...]

A double complaint An ecclesiastical proceeding, which la In the nature of an appeal from an ordinary's refusal to institute, to his next immediate superior; as from a bishop to the archbishop. If the superior adjudges the cause of refusal to be insufficient, he will grant institution to the appellant Phillim. Ecc, Law, 440. … [Read more...]

When the executor is out of the jurisdiction of the court or officer to whom belongs the probate of wills and granting letters of administration, letters of administration will be granted to another during the absence of the executor; and the person thus appointed is called the administrator durante absentia. … [Read more...]