Deportation
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Banishment to a foreign country, attended with confiscation of property and deprivation of civil rights, A punishment derived from the deporitatio (q. v.) of the Roman law, and still in use in France. In Roman law. A_ perpetual lnanishment, depriving the banished of his rights as a citizen; it differed from relegation (q. v.) and exile, (q. v.) 1 Brown, Civil & Adm. Law, 125, note; Inst. 1, 12, 1, and 2; Dig. 48, 22, 14, 1.