Dissection - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: dissectionDissectible
Capable of being dissected or separated by dissection...
Dissection
The act of dissecting an animal or plant as dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I...
Dissected
Cut into several parts divided into sections as a dissected map...
Dissecting
Dividing or separating the parts of an animal or vegetable body as a dissecting aneurism one which makes its way between or within the coats of an artery...
Corpse
Corpse. Removing a corpse from a grave is a misdemeanour at Common Law, Reg. 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 censures, on indictment or information. There is no property in a dead body, Williams v. Williams, (1882) 20 Ch D 659.Dissection.--The (English) Anatomy Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 75), makes dissection legal. See DISSECTION.As to post-mortem examinations, see (English) Public Health Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 49), ss. 161 to 163, and Public Health (London) Act, 1936; for disposing of infectious bodies, see the same Acts respectively.A gaoler cannot detain the dead body of a person in his custody under a ca. sa. (capias ad satisfaciendum) until the executors of the deceased person satisfy his pecuniary claims upon the deceased, R. v. Fox, (1841) 2 QB 246; S.C. Re Wakefield, (1841) 1 G&D 566.See BURIAL and CRE...
Myotomy
The dissection or that part of anatomy which treats of the dissection of muscles...
autopsy
autopsy pl: -sies : an examination of a body after death usually involving dissection esp. to determine the cause of death called also post mortem post mortem examination autopsy vt ...
Burke
To murder by suffocation or so as to produce few marks of violence for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection...
Burkism
The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection...
Cephalotomy
Dissection or opening of the head...
- << Prev.
- Next >>
Sign-up to get more results
Unlock complete result pages and premium legal research features.
Start Free Trial