Cremation

The act or practice of reducing a corpse to ashes by means of fire. Act Pa. 1891, June 8; P. L. 212. To burn a dead body instead of burying it is not a misdemeanor unless it is so done as to amount to a public nuisance. If an inquest ought to be held upon a dead body it is a misdemeanor so to dispose of the body as to prevent the coroner from holding an inquest; L. R. 12 Q. B. D. 247. In L. R. 20 Ch. D. 659, it was doubted as to whether it is lawful to burn a body, but the question was not decided. See 43 Alb. L. J. 140. See Dead Body. CREMENTUM C0MITATUS. The increase of the county. The increase of the king's rents above the old vicontiel rents for which the sheriffs were to account. Wharton, Diet.