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
Bodies of paupers or criminals unclaimed by friends or relatives may
be delivered to medical college or physician for dissection, etc., and
such body shall not be transported out of State (Consol. Stat., secs.
3,299, 3,301, 5,848).
NEVADA.
Justice of peace to hold inquest, etc. (Gen. Stat., sec. 2,256 _et
seq._).
And cause the body to be buried at public expense (Gen. Stat., sec.
2,269).
Body shall not be buried without certificate of physician or coroner
(Gen. Stat., sec. 4,872 _et seq._).
Body shall not be transported out of State without a permit (Gen.
Stat., secs. 4,870, 4,871).
Concealing birth of child which, if born alive, would be a bastard, is
punishable (Gen. Stat., sec. 4,597).
Non-resident, _et al._, to be buried at public expense (Gen. Stat.,
sec. 1,986).
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Coroner to hold inquest, etc. (Pub. Stat., ch. 262, sec. 1 _et seq._).
And bury body if a stranger, at public expense (Pub. Stat., ch. 262,
sec. 16).
Concealing birth of child which, if born alive, would be a bastard, is
punishable (Pub. Stat., ch. 278, sec. 14).
Body of person dying in a county, city, or town, or State prison or
jail, required to be buried at public expense, shall be delivered to
any physician or medical college for dissection, etc., unless deceased
requested to be buried, or friends claimed it or request burial, or
deceased was a stranger or traveller who died suddenly (Pub. Stat., ch.
136).
Body not to be buried without permit or disinterred (Pub. Stat., ch.
173, sec. 6).
Removal of dead body without authority, or concealing it, knowing it to
have been so dug up, is punishable (Pub. Stat., ch. 266, sec. 7).
NEW JERSEY.
Coroner to hold inquest, etc. (Rev. Stat., p. 170 _et seq._).
And bury body if not claimed by friends (Rev. Stat., p. 170, sec. 5).
Concealing birth of child which, if born alive, would be a bastard, is
a misdemeanor (Rev. Stat., p. 241, sec. 83).
Body of executed criminal may be delivered to physician, etc., for
dissection unless claimed by relatives (Rev. Stat., p. 239, sec. 69).
Removal of a body without authority for sale, dissection, etc., is a
high misdemeanor (Rev. Stat., p. 249, sec. 122).
Exposing body of an executed murderer is a misdemeanor (Supp. Rev.
Stat., p. 194, sec. 19).
Body must not be buried without a permit; nor body brought into the
State without permit; nor taken out of State without permit (Laws,
1888, ch. 39, secs. 5-8).
NEW MEXICO.
Justice of the peace to hold inquest, etc. (Comp. Laws, sec. 443 _et
seq._).
And bury the body (Comp. Laws, sec. 447).
Body of one dying of a contagious disease shall not be carried in an
open coffin, or be exposed (Laws, 1889, ch. 79, sec. 8).
Body shall not be buried within fifty yards of running stream (Laws,
1891, ch. 93).
NEW YORK.
Duty of burial, etc. (Pen. Code, sec. 305 _et seq._).
Attempt at sexual intercourse with dead body is a crime against nature
(Pen. Code, sec. 303).
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