Natural Life
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The period between birth and natural death, as distinguished from civil death (g. v.)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
The period between birth and natural death. The use of the word natural before life in a sentence of solitary confinement in a state prison for life, is a surplusage and does not affect the sentence; People v. Wright, S9 Mich. 70, 50 N. W. 792. See Death.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
The period of a person's existence considered as continuing until terminated by physical dissolution or death occurring in the course of nature; used in contradistinction to that juristic and artificial conception of life as an aggregate of legal rights or the possession of a legal personality, which could be terminated by "civil death," that is, that extinction of personality which resulted from entering a monastery or being attainted of treason or felony. See People v. Wright, 89 Mich. 70, 50 N. W. 792.
Defined under Life in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
The period between birth and natural death, as distinguished