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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 does not

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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

Mortuary

in his lifetime. It was usual in ancient times to bring the mortuary to church along with the corpse when it was brought to be buried, and thence it was sometimes called a corpse-present. In the laws

Post-mortem

Post-mortem (after death), as a pot mortem examina-tion of a corpse by a surgeon, in order to discover the cause of death. Such an examination may be ordered by

Executor de son tort.

advantages; but the doing of acts of necessity or humanity, as locking up the goods or burying the corpse of the deceased, will not amount to such an intermeddling as will charge a man as executor of

Dead bodies

Dead bodies. See CORPSE.

Corsepresent

best or second-best beast was, according to custom, offered or presented to the priest, and carried with the corpse; see 21 Hen. 8, c. 6. In Wales a corsepresent was due upon the death of a clergyman

Cadaverisation

Cadaverisation, the act by which a person becomes a cadaver (corpse)-death, [Sunil Batra v. Delhi Administration, AIR 1978 SC 1675 (1692), para 60]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)

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