- Cadaver nullius in bonis. — A dead body is no one's property.
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corpse, the deceased, decedent, the defunct, the departed, exanimis, exanimus, fatal casualty, fatality, the late, the late lamented, mortuus
associated concepts: autopsy, dead-born, dead man's statute, decedent's estates, next of kin, presumed dead, surviving spouse, wrongful death
foreign phrases:
- Extra legem positus est civiliter mortuus. — He who is placed outside the law is civilly dead.
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deceased, defunct, late (defunct), null (invalid), obsolete, pedestrian, torpidBurton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006