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Burial
dissenter or other person, for by the 68th canon 'no minister shall refuse or delay to bury any corpse that is brought to the church or churchyard (convenient warning being given him before), in such manner and
Body
is used in writs to describe the person who is to be taken (as habeas corpus). And see CORPSE. What constitutes a body has not been judicially defined. There must have been independent life, a non-viable fetus
Cremate
of fire either directly or in an oven or retort to incremate or incinerate as to cremate a corpse instead of burying it
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Carcass
A dead body whether of man or beast a corpse now commonly the dead body of a beast
Cadaveric
Of pertaining to or resembling a corpse or the changes produced by death cadaverous as cadaveric rigidity
Cadaver
A dead human body a corpse
Bier
A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave
Crematorium
A furnace for cremating corpses a building containing such a furnace
Pollinctor
One who prepared corpses for the funeral
Anatomy Act
Anatomy Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 75) (English), by which the practice of dissecting human corpses is regulated, and a license required for it.
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