Burkism
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Burkism (from the name of its first perpetrator, who was executed at Edinburgh in January,1829), the practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection. See preamble of the (English) Anatomy Act, 1833 (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 75).
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