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Relegatio

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

(Civil Law) Exile with retention of civil rights.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

In Civil Law. A kind of banishment known to the civil law, which did not take away the rights of citizenship, which dcportatio did. Some say that relegatio was temporary, deportatio perpetual; that relegatio did not take away the property of the exile, and that dcportatio did; but these distinctions do not seem always to exist. There was one sort of relegatio for slaves, viz. in agros; another for freemen, viz. in provincias. Relegatio only exiled from certain limits; dcportatio confined to a particular place ( locus poence). Calvinus, Lex.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Lat A kind of banishment known to the civil law, which differed from "deportatio" in leaving to the person his rights of citizenship.