Usually means: Lack of legal heirs, descendants.
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  1. Failure of issue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  2. failure of issue, Failure of issue: Dictionary.com

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  1. failure of issue: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. failure of issue: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. Failure of Issue: Legal dictionary

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  1. FAILURE OF ISSUE, FAILURE OF ISSUE, FAILURE OF ISSUE: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Definitions from Wikipedia (Failure of issue)

noun:  In property law, a failure of issue is a situation in which a property-holder dies without leaving children who could have inherited their property., § 26.8 (defining phrase).

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