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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.

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The Woman I Left Behind is a love story about Khalid, the proud and bitter Palestinian, exiled alone while still a boy, and Irene, dreamy and rebellious, in self-exile from her family.

The Woman I Left Behind by Powell, Sara / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

Yang sees his poetry as his 'journey' that leads him 'somewhere deeper' within himself; it is probably this self-exile that makes this 'ghost' blissful.

NOTES OF A BLISSFUL GHOST by Marijnissen, Silvia / Pacific Affairs

During a long self-exile in the woods, she becomes a best-selling nature writer, which should be enough of a riposte to the follicle-phobes of the world.

HELL HATH NO FURRY LIKE A WOMAN SHORN by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

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