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FELO DE SE (M.L. a felon, i.e. murderer, of himself)

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 243 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FAT-FLA
FELO DE SE (M.L. a felon, i.e. murderer, of himself) , one who commits murder upon himself. The technical conditions of murder apply to this crime; e.g., " if one commits any unlawful malicious act, the consequence of which is his own death, as if attempting to kill another he runs upon his antagonist's sword, or
shooting
  at another the gun bursts and kills himself," he is a felo de se. The horror inspired by this crime led to the revolting
punishment
  of an " ignominious burial on the
highway
 , with a stake driven through the
body
 ." This was abolished by an act of 1823, which ordered the burial of the
body
  of a person found to be felo de se within 24
hours
  after the
coroner
 's inquest, between the
hours
  of 9 and 12 at night, and without Christian
rites
  of sepulture. This act was again superseded in 1882 by the Interments (Felo de se) Act, which permits the interment of any felo de se in the churchyard or other burial ground of the parish or place in which by the law or custom of England he might have been interred but for the
verdict
 . The interment is carried out in accordance with the Burial
Laws
  Amendment Act 188o (see BURIAL AND BURIAL ACTS). The act does not authorize the performance of any of the
rites
  of Christian burial, but a
special
  form of service may be used. Formerly the goods and chattels, but not the land, of a felo de se were forfeited to the crown, but
such forfeitures were abolished by the Forfeiture Act 187o. (See also SUICIDE.)


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