Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic medicine and Toxicology. Vol. 1Witthaus, R. A. (Rudolph August)
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Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic medicine and Toxicology. Vol. 1
Witthaus, R. A. (Rudolph August)
Medical jurisprudence; Poisons; Toxicology
To bury body decently at expense of county, if necessary, or deliver it
to relatives (McCl. Am. Code, sec. 501).
Removal, etc., of dead body unlawfully, or aiding such removal or
knowingly receiving body so removed, etc., is punishable (McCl. Am.
Code, sec. 5,328).
Coroner, undertaker, superintendent of public asylum, hospital,
poor-house, or penitentiary, may deliver body to medical college or
physician for dissection, etc., unless relatives, etc., refuse or
deceased desired to be buried (McCl. Am. Code, sec. 5,329).
Bodies of those executed, or dying in hospitals or prisons under
sentence for crime, shall be delivered to medical college or
association or any physician or surgeon for dissection, etc., unless
relatives or friends do not consent, or body shall have been interred,
or is not claimed by relatives, or deceased expressed a wish to be
buried, and after such use the remains shall be interred (Gen. Stat.,
sec. 3,758).
State board of health shall issue permits for transportation of bodies
beyond county where death occurred (Gen. Stat., sec. 6,030).
KANSAS.
Coroner to hold inquest, etc. (Gen. Stat., secs. 1,780, 1,794).
To bury body if not claimed by friends, etc., and at public expense, if
necessary (Gen. Stat., sec. 1,792).
Removal of a body unlawfully for dissection or wantonly, or receiving
body knowing it to have been so removed, is a misdemeanor (Gen. Stat.,
sec. 2,372 _et seq._).
KENTUCKY.
Coroner to hold inquest, etc. (Gen. Stat., ch. 25, secs. 3, 11).
To bury the body or deliver to friends (Gen. Stat., ch. 25, sec. 6).
Body of one dying on a steamboat, or other craft, if not claimed by
friends, shall be buried by master or officer in command on shore, at
least four feet deep (Gen. Stat., ch. 29, art. 17, sec. 15).
Removal of body unlawfully from grave is punishable (Gen. Stat., ch.
29, art. 17, sec. 16).
LOUISIANA.
Coroner shall hold inquest, etc., and bury body when not claimed by
friends (Voorh. Rev. L., secs. 653, 660).
MAINE.
Coroner to hold inquest, etc. (R. L., ch. 139, sec. 1).
To bury the body at State or town expense (R. L., ch. 139, sec. 11).
Seizure of body on execution, punishable (R. L., ch. 124, sec. 26).
Removal, etc., of body unlawfully, or receiving it knowingly, or
exposing, etc., body, is punishable (R. L., ch. 124, sec. 27).
Bodies may be buried and the expense recovered from the town (R. L.,
ch. 24, sec. 34).
If any resident request or consent that his body be delivered to a
physician or surgeon for dissection, it may be so delivered, unless
kindred or family connection objects (R. L., ch. 13, sec. 1).
Body of criminal dying in State prison or jail, or who was executed,
may be delivered to medical college or physician, etc., for dissection,
unless deceased or kindred request to be buried (R. L., ch. 13, sec. 2).
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