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Definition of Civil death
1. Noun. The legal status of a person who is alive but who has been deprived of the rights and privileges of a citizen or a member of society; the legal status of one sentenced to life imprisonment.
2. Noun. Cancellation of civil rights.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Civil Death
Literary usage of Civil death
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"(ee) civil death.— t132! These rights, of life and member, can only be determined
by the death ... 10 civil death. — civil death is unknown in this country. ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"in return laboured under most remarkable legal disabilities in the time of the
old regime ; we refer to the " civil death ** of the religious. ..."
3. New Commentaries on Marriage, Divorce, and Separation as to the Law by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1891)
"The doctrine of civil death had its day in the ancient law of England. ...
The husband's civil death, the same as natural death, gave the wife the capacity ..."
4. A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws; Or, Private International Law by Francis Wharton (1906)
"civil death. 107. Nor civil death, nor disabilities attached to ecclesiastics.
—An almost equal unanimity, even among those who maintain the universality of ..."
5. International Law: Private and Criminal by Ludwig von Bar, George Robertson Gillespie (1883)
"civil death. § 48- We have already (supra § 45) spoken of civil death. It follows,
from the general principles as to the international application of rules ..."
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