Enos v. Snyder

131 Cal. 68 ·

Supreme Court of California · Filed

Published · citable Cited by 1

Holding

The court held that the statutory duty and correlative right to bury a decedent and possess the decedent's body for that purpose devolve upon the next of kin, and that a decedent cannot by will or other instrument make a valid disposition of their own corpse, as a dead body is not property that forms part of the estate.

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