GRAVEYARD

A cemetery; a place for the interment of dead bodies; sometimes defined in statutes as a place where a minimum number of persons (as “six or more”) are buried. See Stockton v. Weber, 98 Cal. 433, 83 Pac 332. Graveyard insurance. A term applied to insurances fraudulently obtained (as. by false personation or other means) on the lives of infants, very aged persons, or those in the last stages of disease. Also occasionally applied to an insurance company which writes wager policies, takes extra-hazardous risks, or otherwise exceeds the limits of prudent and legitimate business. See McCarty’s Appeal, 110 P. 879, 4 Atl. 925.