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The act of banishing or the state of being banished...
Banishment
Banishment, an expulsion from the realm. For instances of it in English Law, see, e.g., (English) Roman Catholic Relief Act, 1829 (10 Geo. 4, c. 7), s. 34, banishing monks and Jesuits, and the (English) Alien Act of 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 20), revived for three years by the (English) Prevention of Crime (Ireland) Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 25), s. 15. See ALIEN; TRANSPORTATION....
Banisher
One who banishes...
Exile
Exile [fr. exilium, Lat.], banishment; the person banished.Expulsion from a country esp. from the country of one's origin or longtime residence; banishment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 595....
Expatriation
The act of banishing or the state of banishment especially the forsaking of ones own country with a renunciation of allegiance...
Interdiction of fire and water
Interdiction of fire and water [interdictio ignis et aqu', Lat.], banishment by an order that no man should supply the person banished with fire or water, two of the necessaries of life....
Jews
Jews. Several Statutes were passed in the reign of Queen Victoria respecting the Jews. See 8 & 9 Vict. c. 52, giving them relief as to municipal offices; 10 & 11 Vict. c. 58, and 19 & 20 Vict. c. 119, ss. 21, 22 as to their marriages; 21 & 22 Vict. c. 48, s. 5, amended by 23 & 24 Vict. c. 63, as to their making declara-tions as a qualification for office; and the Jews Relief Act, 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 49), empowering either house of Parliament by resolution to allow them to omit the words 'upon the true faith of a Christian' from the form of oath then required to be taken by members of Parliament. The Promissory Oaths Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 72), has since prescribed a form of oath containing no reference to the faith of a Christian, and the Promissory Oaths Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 48), repeals 21 & 22 Vict. c. 48, and the Jews Relief Act, 1858, except s. 4, which provides that the official patronage of a professing Jew shall devolve on the Archbishop of Canterbury. By s. 3 of...
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 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....
Banish
To condemn to exile or compel to leave ones country by authority of the ruling power...
Depatriate
To withdraw or cause to withdraw from ones country to banish...
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