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Abjuration
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abjure
abjure ab·jured ab·jur·ing [Latin abjurare, from ab- off + jurare to swear] : renounce ;specif : to disclaim formally
Abjure
Abjure, means to renounce formally or on oath, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 5.
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Sanctuary
York, or in London to Whitefriars or the Savoy, within forty days, on confession and taking oath of abjuration of the realm (see ABJURATION), escape to a foreign country, under the disability of not being able to
Abjuratio et Juramentum Latronum
taken by a thief who had claimed sanctuary and wished to escape punishment by abjuring the realm. See ABJURATION.
Deportation
transportation sentences for less than fourteen years, and the latter Act abolished transportation entirely. See TRANSPORTATION. Exile, an abjuration, which is a deportation for ever into a oreign land, was anciently with us a civil death. Compare
Parentela
was done for a just cause. We read of it in the laws of Henry I. After such abjuration, the person was incapable of inheriting anything from any of his relations, etc.
Relegation
Relegation, exile; judicial banishment. Abjuration, i.e., a deportation for ever into a foreign land, is a civil death; relegation is banishment for a
H'retico comburendo, De
De, an ancient common law writ against a heretic, who having been convicted of heresy by the bishop, abjured it, and afterwards fell into the same again, or some other, and was thereupon delivered over to the
Nemo apatriam in qua natus est exuere nec ligenti' debitum ejurare possit
debitum ejurare possit. Co. Litt. 129, (No man can disclaim the country in which he was born, nor abjure the bond of allegiance.) But see EXPATRIATION and ALIEN.
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