440.020 - “Dead body” defined.
440.020 “Dead body” defined. As used in this chapter, “dead body” means a lifeless human body, or such severed parts of the human body or the bones thereof, from the state of which it reasonably may be concluded that death had recently occurred, and where the circumstances under which such dead body was found indicate that the death has not been recorded.
[Part 25a:199:1911; added 1941, 381; 1931 NCL § 5259.01]