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Home Dictionary Name: felo de seFelo de se
Felo de se (a felon with respect to himself); one who feloniously commits suicide. The barbarous mode of burying such persons, in a place where four roads met, with a stake driven through their bodies, was abolished by 4 Geo. 4, c. 52, which directed burial in the churchyard or other burial ground (without divine service) between the hours of nine and twelve at night. The (English) Interments (Felo de se) Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 19), repealed and re-enacted the above Act, omitting the provisions as to the hours of burial, and allowing, by permission of the ordinary, a religious service, the Prayer Book expressly forbidding the use of the Burial Service therein contained in the case of those who die 'laying violent hands on themselves,' Escheat or forfeiture for felony is abolished by the (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23). A coroner's inquest (see CORONER) must beheld in every case of suicide, and in the absence of evidence of unsoundness of mind a verdict of felo...
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 the realm or went into a monastery. The (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23), provides that after the passing of that Act no confession, verdict, inquest, conviction, or judgment of or for any treason or felony, or felo de se, shall cause any attainder or corruption of blood, or any forfeiture or escheat.At common law, the loss of rights. Such as the rights to vote, make contracts, inherit, hold public office and sue, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Civil death, where a property-owner has not been heard of for more than seven years and is therefore treated as having died a civil death, Sheo Nand v. Deputy Director of Consolidation, Allahabad, (2000) 3 SCC 103....
Forfeiture
Forfeiture, a penalty for an offence or unlawful act, or for some wilful omission of a tenant of property whereby he loses it, together with his title, which devolves upon others.Forfeiture resulted from the following circumstan-ces:--(1) Treason, misprision of treason, felony, murder, self-murder, pr'munire, and striking or threatening a judge. But the (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23), enacted that no conviction, etc., for treason or felony, or felo de se, shall cause any forfeiture except as consequent on outlawry. The Act also makes provision for the appointment by the Crown of administrators of the property of convicts.(2) Conveyance contrary to law, as transferring a freehold to an alien, who formerly could take lands but could not hold them; wherefore upon office found the Crown was entitled to the land. But the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1914 (substituted for the (English) Naturalization Act, 1870), subject to certain provisoes, enables ali...
Self-murder
Self-murder. See FELO DE SE....
Suicide
Suicide. (1) Self-slaughter; (2) a self-slaughterer. See FELO DE SE.The act of taking one's own life, Black's Law Diction-ary, 7th Edn., p. 1447....
Accusator post rationable tempus non est audiendus, nisi se bene de omissione excusaverit
Accusator post rationable tempus non est audiendus, nisi se bene de omissione excusaverit [Lat.], An accuser is not to be heard after a reasonable time unless he can account satisfactorily for the delay....
De consuetudinibus se servitiis
De consuetudinibus se servitiis, a real writ to recover rent in arrear. Abolished by the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27)....
per se
per se [Latin, by, of, or in itself] 1 : inherently, strictly, or by operation of statute, constitutional provision or doctrine, or case law [the transaction was illegal per se] see also negligence per se at negligence nuisance per se at nuisance 2 : without proof of special damages or reference to extrinsic circumstances [defamatory statements that were actionable per se] compare per quod adj : being such inherently, clearly, or by operation of statute, constitutional provision or doctrine, or case law [it is clear that licensing of adult entertainment establishments is not a per se violation of the First Amendment "Club Southern Burlesque, Inc. v. City of Carrollton, 457 S.E.2d 816 (1995)"] [a per se conflict of interest] ...
Idoneum se facere; idoneare se
Idoneum se facere; idoneare se, means to make oneself sufficient, to clear oneself. To purge oneself by oath, of a crime that one is accused of committ-ing, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 749.Idoneum se facere; idoneare se, to purge onself by oath of a crime of which one is accused....
VerbarFelo de se
One who deliberately puts an end to his own existence or loses his life while engaged in the commission of an unlawful or malicious act a suicide...
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