"Mort Civile" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL
In French law. Civil death, as upon conviction for felony. It was nominally abollshed by a law of the 31st of May, 1854, but something very similar to it, in effect at least, still remains. Thus, the property of the condemned, possessed by him at the date of his conviction, goes and belongs to his successors, (hdritiers,) as in case of an lntestacy; and his future acquired property goes to the state by right of Its prerogative, (par droit de ddshdrence,) but the state may, as a matter of grace, make it over in whole or in part to the widow and children. Brown
He was with me, beside me, inside me, and I did not care that my children were asleep, alone at home, or that the neighbors might come to know. He burned the fear out of me until all was left was desire.
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