Cemetery

Cemetery [fr. Koimhthriou, Gk., fr. Koim'w, to set to sleep], a place of burial differing from a churchyard by its locality and incidents; by its locality, as it is separate and apart from any parochial church, though it has ordinarily a chapel of its own for the performance of a burial service; by its incidents, as it is usually the property of some private company, incorporated by special Act of Parliament, empowered to take land compulsorily, and subject to the Cemeteries Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 65) (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Burial'), by which, amongst other things, provision is made for obtaining a burial place in perpetuity....

Cemeterial

Of or pertaining to a cemetery...

Burial ground

Burial ground, includes a vault or other place where a body is buried, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 10, 4th Edn., Para 1187, p. 548.Burial ground, includes any churchyard, cemetery or other ground, whether consecrated or not, which has been at any time set aside for the purpose of interment, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 10, 4th Edn., Para 1099, p. 817.Burial ground, includes any churchyard, cemetery or other ground, whether consecrated or not, which has been at any time set apart for the purpose of intermet, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 10, 4th Edn., Para 1226, p. 864.The Common Law place of burial is the parish churchyard; but the growth of population and sanitary reasons having made additional burial grounds necessary, these began to be provided by companies specially authorized thereto by local (English) Acts of Parliaments, and in 1847 the Cemeteries Clauses Act (10 & 11 Vict. c. 65), consolidated the provisions usually contained in the local Acts, which thenceforward u...

Cemetery

A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead a graveyard a churchyard a necropolis...

Churchyard

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

Graveyard

A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead a cemetery...

Memorial rose

A Japanese evergreen rose Rosa wichuraiana with creeping branches shining leaves and single white flowers It is often planted in cemeteries...

Necropolis

A city of the dead a name given by the ancients to their cemeteries and sometimes applied to modern burial places a graveyard...

Exhumation

Exhumation, the disinterring of an interred corpse. To disinter a dead body without lawful authority is a common law misdemeanour. Unless a body is removed from one consecrated burial place to another by faculty, it is unlawful to remove any body or the remains unless by licence from the Secretary of State [(English) Burial Act, 1857 (c. 81), s. 25; (English) Fees (Increase) Act, 1923 (c. 4), s. 7; Cemeteries Clauses Act, 1847 (c. 65), s. 26]. A coroner may by common law order disinterment within a reasonable time for taking an original inquisition or a fee for the inquisition. For the purpose of cremating bodies already buried, an exhumation licence must be obtained from the Secretary of State.The removal from the earth of something buried esp. a human corpse, disinterment, Black's Law Dic-tionary, 7th Edn., p. 595....

Kill

Kill, Irish for a church or cemetery; used as a prefix to the names of many places in Ireland....

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