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Reclusion

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Incarceration under a sentence to undergo an infamous punishment, with civil degradation. See 47 La. Ann. 367, 16 South. 952.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In French law and in Louisiana. Incarceration as a punishment for crime; a temporary, afflictive, and Infamous punishment, consisting in being confined at hard labor in a penal institution, and carrying civil degradation. See Phelps v. Reinach, 38 La. Ann. 651; Jurgens v. Itt-man, 47 La. Ann. 367, 16 South. 952.