Deportation
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In Roman law. A perpetual banishment, depriving th6 banished of his rights as a citizen. It differed from "relegation" {q. v.) and "exile" (g. v.) 1 Brown, Civ. Law, 125, note; Inst. 1.
12. 1. 2; Dig. 48. 22. 14. 1.
In English law the word referred to sentences to servitude in penal colonies. In American law the word usually re-