Legal Term: BURIAL

Definition: The act of interring the dead.

2. No burial is lawful unless made in conformity with the local regulations, an when a dead body has been found, it cannot be lawfully buried until the coroner has holden an inquest over it. In England. it is the practice for coroners to issue warrants to bury, after a view. 2 Umf. Lex. Coron. 497, 498.

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