Dead Bodies - Law Dictionary Search Results
Corps
The human body whether living or dead
Corpse
v. Sharpe, (1857) 26 LJ C 47; R. v. Kenyon, (1901) 36 LJ News. 571. Refusing to bury dead bodies by those whose duty it is to do so is punishable by the temporal courts, independently of spiritual
Birth, Concealing
person who shall, by any secret disposition (see R. v. Brown, 1870 LR 1 CCR 244) of the dead body of a child, whether such child died before, at, or after his birth, endeavour to conceal the
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Coroner
consolidating (English) Coroners Act, 1887, which codifies the law as follows:-- Where a coroner is informed that the dead body of a person is lying within his jurisdiction, and there is reasonable cause to suspect that such … person may not be removed out of England until the local coroner has been informed. See Removal of Bodies from England Regulations, 1927. See Jervis on Coroners; Encyc. of the Laws of England, vol. iii
funeral home
An establishment usually commercial where the bodies of dead persons are prepared for viewing before burial or cremation called also funeral parlor mortuary funeral chapel and informally
Deadness
state of being destitute of life vigor spirit activity etc dullness inertness languor coldness vapidness indifference as the deadness of a limb a body or a tree the deadness of an eye deadness of the affections the
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 … 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
Cremation
Cremation, the disposal of a dead body by burning instead of by burial. This is not illegal, unless it be done so as to
Diss
Diss., the anatomical examination of a dead body. It is regulated by the (English) Anatomy Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 75), 'An
dybbuk
the wandering soul of a dead person or a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that bodys behavior It
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