Civil death Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the legal status of a person who is alive but who has been deprived of the rights and privileges of a citizen or a member of society; the legal status of one sentenced to life imprisonment
  2. noun cancellation of civil rights
    attainder.

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  1. the separation of a man from civil society, or the debarring him from the enjoyment of civil rights, as by banishment, attainder, abjuration of the realm, entering a monastery, etc. Blackstone.
Definitions
  1. . (Law.) See under Death.

Webster 1913