Know-Legal Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Presumption of death - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_death

    A presumption of death occurs when a person is believed to be dead, despite the absence of direct proof of the person's death, such as the finding of remains (e.g., a corpse or skeleton) attributable to that person. Such a presumption is typically made by an individual when a person has been missing for an extended period and in the absence of ...

  3. Cause of death - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cause_of_death

    In law, medicine, and statistics, cause of death is an official determination of the conditions resulting in a human 's death, which may be recorded on a death certificate. A cause of death is determined by a medical examiner. In rare cases, an autopsy needs to be performed by a pathologist. The cause of death is a specific disease or injury ...

  4. Vital statistics (government records) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vital_statistics...

    Vital statistics (government records) Vital statistics is accumulated data gathered on live births, deaths, migration, foetal deaths, marriages and divorces. The most common way of collecting information on these events is through civil registration, an administrative system used by governments to record vital events which occur in their ...

  5. Death certificate - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_certificate

    A death certificate is either a legal document issued by a medical practitioner which states when a person died, or a document issued by a government civil registration office, that declares the date, location and cause of a person's death, as entered in an official register of deaths. An official death certificate is usually required to be ...

  6. List of fatal snake bites in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_snake_bites...

    After the bite, he did not seek medical attention and died the next day. The county coroner stated the cause of death listed on the death certificate states "Undetermined" because De Leon also had a lethal level of the narcotic oxycodone in his system, along with alcohol and a non-lethal level of hydrocodone. David Giles, 59, male May 20, 2015

  7. Three Mile Island accident - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident

    The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown of the Unit 2 reactor (TMI-2) of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station on the Susquehanna River in Londonderry Township, near Harrisburg, the capital city of Pennsylvania, United States. The reactor accident began at 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979, and released radioactive ...

  8. Category:Accidental deaths in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Accidental_deaths...

    Denny Mack. John Marzano. Peter Masak. John McCloskey (pitcher) Kindred McLeary. Roger Miller (baseball) Peter Mills (freedman)

  9. Legal death - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_death

    Legal death is the recognition under the law of a particular jurisdiction that a person is no longer alive. [1] In most cases, a doctor's declaration of death (variously called) or the identification of a corpse is a legal requirement for such recognition. A person who has been missing for a sufficiently long period of time (typically at least ...