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Civiliter mortuus
Matched in: Term Civiliter mortuus
Extra legem positus est civiliter mortuus
Matched in: Term Extra legem positus est civiliter mortuus
Attainder
being pronounced, or of outlawry for a capital offence. the criminal then becomes dead in law, technically called civiliter mortuus. It differs from conviction in that it is after judgment, whereas conviction is upon the verdict of guilty
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Civil death
Civil death. A man is said to be civilly dead (civiliter mortuus) when he has been attainted of treason or felony, and, in former times, when he adjured the realm
Outlawry
it were, placed outside the law; he bears the head of a wolf.) Accordingly, any person outlawed is civiliter mortuus. He can hold no property given or devised to him; and all the property which he held before
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