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Old 10-13-2004, 12:16 AM   #2674
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You are funny, kinda. What's being?
It's an old legal term of art. I can see why it confused you. A life in being is a person, having been born and not yet deceased. See, e.g, the Rule Against Perpetuities, the common law definition of homicide, and the law of intestacy.
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