Effigy in United States
Effigy Definition
The figure or representation of a person. To make the efBgy of a person with an intent to make him the object of ridicule is a libel (g. v.) Hawk. P. C: bk. 1, c. 73, § 2; 14 East, 227; 2 Chit. Crim. Law, 866. In France an execution by effigy or in effigy is adopted in the case of a criminal who has fled from justice. By the public exposure or exhibition of a picture or representation of him on a scaffold on which his name and the decree condemning him are written, he is deemed to undergo the punishment to which he has been sentenced. Since the adoption of the Code Civil, the practice has been to affix the names, qualities, or addition, and the residence of the condemned person, together with an extract from the sentence of condemnation, to a post set upright in the ground instead of exhibiting a portrait of him on the scaffold.
Effigy in Foreign Legal Encyclopedias
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| Effigy | Effigy in the World Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Effigy | Effigy in the European Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Effigy | Effigy in the Asian Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Effigy | Effigy in the UK Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Effigy | Effigy in the Australian Legal Encyclopedia. |
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| Effigy | Effigy in the Family Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Effigy | Effigy in the IP Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Effigy | Effigy in the Commercial Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Effigy | Effigy in the Criminal Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Effigy | Effigy in the Antritrust Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Effigy | Effigy in the Bankruptcy Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Effigy | Effigy in the Constitutional Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Effigy | Effigy in the Tax Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Effigy | Effigy in the and Finance and Banking Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Effigy | Effigy in the Employment and Labor Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Effigy | Effigy in the Personal Injury and Tort Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Effigy | Effigy in the Environmental Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
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Legal Issue for Attorneys
The figure or representation of a person. To make the efBgy of a person with an intent to make him the object of ridicule is a libel (g. v.) Hawk. P. C: bk. 1, c. 73, § 2; 14 East, 227; 2 Chit. Crim. Law, 866. In France an execution by effigy or in effigy is adopted in the case of a criminal who has fled from justice. By the public exposure or exhibition of a picture or representation of him on a scaffold on which his name and the decree condemning him are written, he is deemed to undergo the punishment to which he has been sentenced. Since the adoption of the Code Civil, the practice has been to affix the names, qualities, or addition, and the residence of the condemned person, together with an extract from the sentence of condemnation, to a post set upright in the ground instead of exhibiting a portrait of him on the scaffold.
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This definition of Effigy is based on The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary. This entry needs to be proofread.