Printer Friendly
The Free Dictionary
1,075,848,932 visitors served.
?
Dictionary/
thesaurus
Medical
dictionary
Legal
dictionary
Financial
dictionary
Acronyms
 
Idioms
Encyclopedia
Wikipedia
encyclopedia
?

Exile
(redirected from Forced exile)

    Also found in: Encyclopedia, Wikipedia 0.03 sec.

EXILE, civil law. The: interdiction of all places except one in which the party is forced to make his residence.
     2. This punishment did not deprive the sufferer of his right of citizenship or of his property, unless the exile were perpetual, in which case confiscation not unfrequently was a part of the sentence. Exile was temporary or perpetual. Dig. 48, 22, 4; Code, 10, 59, 2. Exile differs from deportation, (q.v.) and relegation. (q.v.) Vide, 2 Lev. 191; Co. Litt. 133, a.



How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content.
?Page tools
Printer friendly
Cite / link
Email
Feedback
Add definition
? References in periodicals archive
Increasingly we are dealing with what Bruce Robbins calls "different modalities of situatedness-in-displacement" (250) as globalization, migration, and forced exile have separated people from places and made conceptions of ethnicity less static and more mobile, fluid, and hybrid as they are subject to a greater variety of cultural influences.
The traumas of unbelonging: Reinaldo Arenas's recuperations of Cuba by Vickroy, Laurie / MELUS
Ghandour's song is a moody evocation of the meaning of place and the spiritual costs of forced exile from that place.
Beyond Arabism: music videos and Lebanese revolution by Freund, Charles Paul / Reason
This past April, President Bush followed through on his promise to commemorate this event with a signed statement, "Today marks the commemoration of one of the great tragedies of history: the forced exile and annihilation of approximately 1.
The Armenian Church Celebrates Its 1,700-Year Anniversary by Strickert, Fred / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
More results
 
Legal browser? ? Full browser
 
 
Legal Dictionary
?

Disclaimer | Privacy policy | Feedback | Copyright © 2008 Farlex, Inc.
All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.. Terms of Use.