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Deportatio

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

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.