Death or departure (an archaic or legal term, especially in Scottish law).
From Latin decessus (departure, death), from decedere (to depart, die), combining de- (away) and cedere (to go, yield). The term survives in legal documents.
Scottish property lawyers still use 'decess' in formal documents—while most English speakers switched to 'death,' this Latin word embedded itself so deeply in Scottish legal language that it refused to die.
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