Disinter - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: disinterExhumation
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 place to another by faculty, it is unlawful to remove any body or the remains unless by licence from the Secretary of State [(English) Burial Act, 1857 (c. 81), s. 25; (English) Fees (Increase) Act, 1923 (c. 4), s. 7; Cemeteries Clauses Act, 1847 (c. 65), s. 26]. A coroner may by common law order disinterment within a 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 of something buried esp. a human corpse, disinterment, Black's Law Dic-tionary, 7th Edn., p. 595....
Carnary
A vault or crypt in connection with a church used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places a charnel house...
Disenter
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Disentomb
To take out from a tomb a disinter...
Disinhume
To disinter...
Disinter
To take out of the grave or tomb to unbury to exhume to dig up...
Disinterment
The act of disinterring or taking out of the earth exhumation...
Exhumated
Disinterred...
Exhume
To dig out of the ground to take out of a place of burial to disinter...
Resurrect
To take from the grave to disinter...
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