funeral expenses

  • 1funeral expenses clause — A clause usually contained in standard automobile liability policies which provide, by way of extra coverage, for the payment of funeral expenses of a person killed as a result of the condition or use of the automobile covered by the policy. 7 Am …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 2funeral expenses — Money expended in procuring the interment, cremation, or other disposition of a corpse, including suitable monument, perpetual care of burial lot and entertainment of those participating in wake …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 3funeral expenses — Money expended in procuring the interment, cremation, or other disposition of a corpse, including suitable monument, perpetual care of burial lot and entertainment of those participating in wake …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 4funeral expenses — Those necessary and, in fact, compulsory expenditures, the necessity for which arises immediately upon and after the death of a person and which embrace the embalming, arraying, coffining, and sepulture or cremation of his body, together with… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 5funeral — fu|ne|ral [ˈfju:nərəl] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Late Latin; Origin: funeralis, from Latin funus funeral ] 1.) a religious ceremony for burying or cremating (=burning) someone who has died →↑burial, cremation ↑cremation ▪ The funeral will be held at… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 6funeral — /fyooh neuhr euhl/, n. 1. the ceremonies for a dead person prior to burial or cremation; obsequies. 2. a funeral procession. 3. be someone s funeral, Informal. to have unpleasant consequences for someone: If you don t finish the work on time, it… …

    Universalium

  • 7funeral — funerary, funeral, funereal Funerary is the standard adjective in the neutral meaning ‘of or used at a funeral or funerals’, as in funerary ashes, funerary urn, etc. It dates from the late 17c and has replaced funeral, which was originally an… …

    Modern English usage

  • 8funeral — fu•ner•al [[t]ˈfyu nər əl[/t]] n. 1) the ceremonies for a dead person prior to burial or cremation; obsequies 2) a funeral procession 3) of or pertaining to a funeral: funeral services; funeral expenses[/ex] • be someone s funeral Etymology:… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 9expenses of family — Medical and funeral expenses are expenses of the family within meaning of statute making expenses of family chargeable upon property of both husband and wife. Hansen v. Hayes, 175 Or. 358, 154 P.2d 202, 205. Under such a statute the term includes …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 10expenses of family — Medical and funeral expenses are expenses of the family within meaning of statute making expenses of family chargeable upon property of both husband and wife. Hansen v. Hayes, 175 Or. 358, 154 P.2d 202, 205. Under such a statute the term includes …

    Black's law dictionary