Depopulation
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In old English law
A species of waste, by which the population of the kingdom was diminished. Depopulation of houses was a public offense.
12 Coke, 30, 31.
DEPORTATIO (Lat.) In the civil law. A kind of banishment, where a condemned person was sent or carried away to some foreign country, usually to an island, in insulam deportatur, and thus taken out of the number of Roman citizens, ex numero eivium Bomanorum tollitur, being treated as though he were dead.
Inst. 1. 12. 1.
It was banishment for life, attended with the loss of civil rights, and the forfeiture of property. Relegatio was banishment for years, without the loss of civil rights.
Dig. 48.
22; Calv. Lex. Bracton uses the term deportatio as synonymous with "exile," "abjuration of the realm," and "outlawry." Bracton, fol.
136b.