LAST SICKNESS. That of which a person died.
2. The expenses of this sickness are generally entitled to a
preference, in payment of debts of an insolvent estate. Civ. Code of Lo.
art. 3166; Purd. Ab. 393.
3. To prevent impositions, the statute of frauds requires that
nuncupative wills shall be made during the testator's last sickness. Rob. on
Frauds, 556; 20 John. R. 502.