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Definition :

Relegation, exile; judicial banishment.

Abjuration, i.e., a deportation for ever into a foreign land, is a civil death; relegation is banishment for a time only, Co. Litt. 133 a. In Rome, relegation was a less severe punishment than deportation, in that the relegated person did not thereby lose the rights of a Roman citizen, nor those of his family, as the authority of a father over his children, etc, Sand. Just.