Civil death, the Glossary
Civil death (civiliter mortuus) is the loss of all or almost all civil rights by a person due to a conviction for a felony or due to an act by the government of a country that results in the loss of civil rights.[1]
Table of Contents
29 relations: Abjuration, China, Civil and political rights, Collateral consequences of criminal conviction, Common law, Counter-revolutionary, Disfranchisement, Exile, Felony, Freedom of assembly, Freedom of association, Freedom of speech, Freedom of the press, Ghosts… of the Civil Dead, Holy Roman Empire, Homo sacer, Loss of rights due to criminal conviction, Monastery death, New York (state), Outlaw, Political demonstration, Religious profession, Rhode Island, Roman law, Sex offender registries in the United States, Social death, State-owned enterprise, United States Virgin Islands, Vogelfrei.
Abjuration
Abjuration is the solemn repudiation, abandonment, or renunciation by or upon oath, often the renunciation of citizenship or some other right or privilege.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Civil and political rights
Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.
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Collateral consequences of criminal conviction
Collateral consequences of criminal conviction are the additional civil state penalties, mandated by statute, that attach to a criminal conviction.
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Common law
Common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions.
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Counter-revolutionary
A counter-revolutionary or an anti-revolutionary is anyone who opposes or resists a revolution, particularly one who acts after a revolution in order to try to overturn it or reverse its course, in full or in part.
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Disfranchisement
Disfranchisement, also disenfranchisement (which has become more common since 1982) or voter disqualification, is the restriction of suffrage (the right to vote) of a person or group of people, or a practice that has the effect of preventing someone from exercising the right to vote.
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Exile
Exile or banishment, is primarily penal expulsion from one's native country, and secondarily expatriation or prolonged absence from one's homeland under either the compulsion of circumstance or the rigors of some high purpose. Civil death and Exile are Punishments.
Felony
A felony is traditionally considered a crime of high seriousness, whereas a misdemeanor is regarded as less serious.
Freedom of assembly
Freedom of peaceful assembly, sometimes used interchangeably with the freedom of association, is the individual right or ability of people to come together and collectively express, promote, pursue, and defend their collective or shared ideas.
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Freedom of association
Freedom of association encompasses both an individual's right to join or leave groups voluntarily, the right of the group to take collective action to pursue the interests of its members, and the right of an association to accept or decline membership based on certain criteria.
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Freedom of speech
Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction. Civil death and freedom of speech are human rights.
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Freedom of the press
Freedom of the press or freedom of the media is the fundamental principle that communication and expression through various media, including printed and electronic media, especially published materials, should be considered a right to be exercised freely.
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Ghosts… of the Civil Dead
Ghosts...
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Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor.
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Homo sacer
Homo sacer (Latin for "the sacred man" or "the accursed man") is a figure of Roman law: a person who is banned and might be killed by anybody, but must not be sacrificed in a religious ritual. Civil death and Homo sacer are human rights.
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Loss of rights due to criminal conviction
Loss of rights due to criminal conviction refers to the practice in some countries of reducing the rights of individuals who have been convicted of a criminal offence.
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Monastery death
Monastery death was a form of civil death – the loss of legal capacity of living persons – known to common and civil law.
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New York (state)
New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.
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Outlaw
An outlaw, in its original and legal meaning, is a person declared as outside the protection of the law. Civil death and outlaw are Punishments.
Political demonstration
A political demonstration is an action by a mass group or collection of groups of people in favor of a political or other cause or people partaking in a protest against a cause of concern; it often consists of walking in a mass march formation and either beginning with or meeting at a designated endpoint, or rally, in order to hear speakers.
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Religious profession
In the Catholic Church, a religious profession is the solemn admission of men or women into consecrated life by means of the pronouncement of religious vows, typically the evangelical counsels.
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Rhode Island
Rhode Island (pronounced "road") is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
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Roman law
Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables, to the (AD 529) ordered by Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I. Roman law forms the basic framework for civil law, the most widely used legal system today, and the terms are sometimes used synonymously.
Sex offender registries in the United States
Sex offender registries in the United States exist at both the federal and state levels.
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Social death is the condition of people not accepted as fully human by wider society.
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State-owned enterprise
A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a business entity which is established and/or owned by a national or state/provincial government, by an executive order or an act of legislation, in order to earn profit for the government, control monopoly of the private sector over means of production, provide commodities to citizens at a lower price, implement government policies, and/or to deliver products and services to remote locations that otherwise have trouble attracting private vendors.
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United States Virgin Islands
The United States Virgin Islands, officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of Caribbean islands and an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States.
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Vogelfrei
Vogelfrei (Vogelvrij and Voëlvry) in German usage denotes the status of a person on whom a legal penalty of outlawry has been imposed.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_death
Also known as Civiliter mortuus, Deprivation of Political Rights.