Deportatio

I.

In the civil law. A kind of banishment for life, attended with a loss of civil rights and the forfeiture of property, upon which the condemned person was sent or carried away to some foreign country. Usually an island, and thus taken out of the number of Roman citizens, being treated as if dead.

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 énsulam deportatur,) and thus taken out of the number of Roman citizens.

Lat. [from deportare, to carry away.] In the civil law. A kind of banishment, where a condemned person was sent or earned away to some foreign country, usually to an island, {in insulam deportatur,) and thus taken out of the number of Roman citizens, {ex num^ro civium Romanorum iollitur,) 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. Cooper's Notes in loco. Dig. 48. 22. Calvin Lex, Jurid. Bracton uses the term deportatio as synonymous with exile, abjuration of the realm and outlawry. Bract, fol. 136 b.