The law of DEATH-BED, in Scots law, the privilege which that law allows to an heir of reducing all deeds respecting the heritable estate of his predecessor, granted by him while on death bed, in prejudice of the lawful heir. All deeds are liable to reduction ex capite lecti, that are granted by a person within sixty days of his death, if he had then contracted the disease of which he died, and had not afterwards recovered, so as to have gone to kirk or market unsupported. See SCOTS LAW, title 27.