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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 5018

Damages - Wrongful Death - Mortality Table Used to Determine Life Expectancy

activein force · 2012-02-17 – presentas-observed

According to life-expectancy tables, the average life expectancy of a ___________

[specify deceased person’s race] __________ [specify deceased person’s gender] is _____ years.

This number is to assist you in determining [name of deceased person]’s life expectancy. The

number is not certain, and you are not required to use it.

You can consider this life expectancy if you find that [name of deceased person] was in

good health at the time of the [accident/injury] and that [his/her] job was not extremely

dangerous or likely to affect [his/her] health. You may also find that [name of deceased person]

would have lived longer than _____ years or less than _____ years.

History

Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 5018 (current as of February 17, 2012). Submitted in 2012 by the Mississippi Model Jury Instructions Commission (created by the Supreme Court of Mississippi by order of December 30, 2008) and published by the Court on courts.ms.gov. The Court states that these model jury instructions have not been adopted or approved by the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Provenance

Source: courts.ms.gov
Retrieved: 2026-09-25
Edition: 2026-09-25
Content hash: c4d878d2df7f1e770581527ab1518d7e32634aa89369a5def6854017fb6e9ff0

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