The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law: The Law of Church and GraveScanlan, Charles Martin
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The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law: The Law of Church and Grave
Scanlan, Charles Martin
Burial laws -- United States; Ecclesiastical law -- United States
*449.* _Roads, Alleys._—Most of the laws relating to highways apply to
cemetery roads and alleys, excepting that when a road or alley in a
cemetery is vacated the land reverts to the cemetery instead of becoming
parts of the adjoining lots.(790) In most of the States a road can not be
laid out through or take a part of a cemetery.(791) But a public highway
may be established through a cemetery by user, the same as over other
lands.(792)
*450.* _Abandoned, Bodies._—When a cemetery has been abandoned, those who
have relatives buried there may incorporate it for preservation.(793)
Also, a corporation may change its cemetery and remove the bodies interred
therein.(794)
*451.* _Two-Family Lot, Control._—Where a lot is owned jointly by two
families, one burying in the north half and the other in the south half,
the family burying in the north half can not prevent the burial of a
member of the other family in the south half, if entitled to be buried in
that cemetery.(795)
*452.* _Burying Dogs, Removal._—A person who has a lot in a cemetery has
no right to bury any but human bodies therein, and one who has buried a
pet dog in her lot may be compelled to remove it.(796)
*453.* _Stranger, Protest, Kin._—One member of a family can not authorize
the burial of a stranger in a family lot where his parents are buried and
against the protest of any other relative of equal or nearer degree of
kin.(797) When an owner of a lot has consented to the burial of a body
therein, he can not afterward remove the body or deface the tombstone, and
to do so would be a criminal offense.(798) When a lot is sold to one
person, the cemetery association has the right to limit interments to
members of the family owning the lot. However, where there is nothing
concerning it in the laws or rules of the association, it might be
different.(799)
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