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Burying ground

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Burial ground

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Churchyard

The ground adjoining a church in which the dead are buried a cemetery

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Graveyard

or private graveyard and a public graveyard. A graveyard is a private one which is confined only to burial of corpses of the founder, his relations or his descendants. In such a burial ground no person who

Deterration

The uncovering of anything buried or covered with earth a taking out of the earth or ground

Cremation

to cause it to be burnt, Williams v. Williams, (1882) 20 Ch D 659. If burial in consecrated ground and cremation are both desired, cremation should precede and not follow burial, and the Burial Service maybe read … Cremation, the disposal of a dead body by burning instead of by burial. This is not illegal, unless it be done so as to cause a nuisance, or with the intention

Felo de se

Felo de se (a felon with respect to himself); one who feloniously commits suicide. The barbarous mode of burying such persons, in a place where four roads met, with a stake driven through their bodies, was abolished … bodies, was abolished by 4 Geo. 4, c. 52, which directed burial in the churchyard or other burial ground (without divine service) between the hours of nine and twelve at night. The (English) Interments (Felo de se)

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