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Quarantine

Ballentine's Law Dictionary · James A. Ballentine · 1916

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

A widow’s common-law right to tarry in the mansion forty days after her husband’s death.

See 41 Ala. 571.

A confinement of persons inflicted with a contagious disease in a given place apart from the public to prevent the spread of the disease.

See 113 Ga. 570, 54 L. R. A. 292, 38 S. E. 980.