civil death

Being subject to collateral consequences has been called a form of civil death.

To be declared an outlaw was to suffer a form of civil death.

This was a form of civil death.

Historically outlawry, that is, declaring a person as an outlaw, was a common form of civil death.

They were finally sentenced to life detention, accompanied by civil death for Polignac.

This was the principle of "coverture," or civil death.

Article 18 further stipulates that the penalty of civil death is abolished, and that it cannot be brought back into force.

Civil death: An examination of ex-felon disenfranchisement and reintegration.

This civil death often led to actual death, since anyone could kill and injure a felon with impunity.

Disenfranchisement of felons is opposed by some as a form of the medieval practice of civil death.

Losing voting rights is usually imposed on a person convicted of a crime against the state (see civil death) or one related to election or public office.

Civil death was a penalty in Belgium in the Ancien Régime.

Because nobles were leaving France and intriguing against the State, some deputies wished to declare "civil death" for all who left France.

He told the Lords that "Imprisonment in law is a civil death [and] a prison without a prefixed time is a kind of hell".

The clandestine life amounting almost to "civil death" which the applicant had been compelled to adopt was incompatible with the punishment regime of a democratic society."

In the US, the disenfranchisement of felons has been called a form of civil death, as has being subjected to collateral consequences in general.

As author, he was practically condemned to a civil death, as it was not even commented upon in the press, not even to criticize it.

The civil death which by English law seems to have applied to men only, might be by the French law incurred by women taking perpetual religious vows.

Disenfranchisement was commonly imposed on individuals convicted of "infamous" crimes as part of their "civil death", whereby these persons would lose all rights and claim to property.

Meijer points to the omission of the concept of mort civil (or civil death), a concept which was wholly foreign to Dutch society.

The notion that former felons should not be allowed to vote dates back to medieval Europe, where criminals were banished from the community and deemed to have suffered "civil death."

The Tribunal decided that Greiser was guilty of all charges, and sentenced him to death by hanging, civil death, and confiscation of all his property.

Dayan has received an NEH fellowship (1986); a Guggenheim fellowship (2005) recognized her work on conditions of disfigured personhood and civil death that long outlive slavery itself.

In such cases, the first and foremost hurdle is that though Succession Act has not contemplated or incorporated the principle of civil death, yet the courts have tried to bring in that principle through the interpretative process.

In a decision rendered prior to the enactment of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, the Supreme Court, in the context of Hindu Law, held that entrance of one person into a religious order operates as civil death.