Depopulation

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.

In old English law. A species of waste by which the population of the kingdom was diminished.

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, 80, 31,

In old English law. A species of waste by which the population of the kingdom was diminished. Depopulation of houses was a public offence. 12 Co. 30, 31.

Inits most proper signification, is the destruction of the people of a country or place. This word is, however, taken rather in a passive than an active sense; we say depopulation, to designate the diminution of its inhabitants, arising either from violent causes, or the want of multiplication. Vide 12 Co. 30.