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Civiliter mortuus

Civiliter mortuus (civilly defunct, i.e., dead inlaw). See CIVIL DEATH.

liberty his qualified property in them ceases, 2 Bl. Com. 391. See GAME. Of animals fer' natur' when dead, reclaimed, or confined, if they are fit for food, larceny may be committed at Common Law; at Common

Confinement

child, or labour after twenty-six weeks of pregnancy resulting in the issue of a child whether alive or dead. [Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 (34 of 1948), s. 2(3)] The act of imprisoning or restraining someone; the

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Shorling

a sheen after the fleece is shorn off as distinct from the morling or skin taken from the dead sheep also a sheep of the first years shearing

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

Chartarum super fidem, mortuis testibus, ad patriam, de necessitudine, recurrendum est

Chartarum super fidem, mortuis testibus, ad patriam, de necessitudine, recurrendum est [Lat.], The witnesses being dead, it must be referred, as to the truth of charters, out of necessity, to the country-i.e. a jury.

Burglary

If violence on the part of the burglar be reasonably apprehended, it is not murder to shoot him dead with intent to kill him, but whether it is justifiable to kill merely in defence of property is

Births, Marriages, and Deaths

relatives, etc. By s. 203 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, births of any child alive or dead after the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy must be notified to the Medical Officer of Health, except as there

Attainder

Law, of sentence of death 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

Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea.

reasonably believing her first husband (whom she had lost sight of for less than 7 years) to be dead; see the elaborate judgment of Stephen, J., pp. 184 et seq., who, however, described the maxim as most

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