JB/011/221/001

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1826 Nov. 6
Body-providing Bill

patient it shall be understood that in case of his dying there the consent of such
patient the requisite and sufficient consent shall be understood to have
been thereby given to the eventual such disposal of his body in
case the event of his dying within the same for the inspection, and in such manner as may
be most conductive to the instruction of pupils in the locating art of evidence
been of the profession in the art of under the charge
of the person or persons direction of the medical practitioner having having
the principal charge of the said Hospital, and that with the exception
and under the conditions hereinafter following such presumed consent
shall be a sufficient warrant for the eventual disposal of the body
of such in manner aforesaid.

§. 2. And whereas notwithstanding after any such consent actually
given by the deceased it may nevertheless be matter of affliction
to his surviving relatives to see or to know of the exposure of
his body in such manner as may be necessary, especially
if the same were deprived of the benefits according to the rites
of the Church of England or other Christian Church as the case
may be

hereafter
s. 2
Preamble The exposure
may be a great cause of
affliction to near relatives
Enactment relative
within the prohibitive
Degree reclaims the
body within 24 hours
from the death it shall
be delivered over to
such relative

Be it enacted that if within of four and twelve
hours after the decease of any such patron any person shall persuade
have presented himself or herself at the said hospital offering
to make oath as being of the persuasion to into
to affirm that he or she was wife is husband or wife of the deceased
at the time of his death or related to him or he
within any one of the degrees called
with relation to marriage the prohibited degrees after according
to the form in Schedule A hereto annext which oath in
affirmation any person who by the instrument or his appointment
had been constituted Physician Surgeon Apothecary or principal Assistant
or hereby appointed authorized to administer a certificate of such application the body of the deceased shall be
together with an appropriate
undertaking
application shall by in the form notified B in the said Schedule
such medical practitioner
be delivered to such applicant
saving the right of such
practitioner

Identifier: | JB/011/221/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11.
Date_1	1826-11-06	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	011	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	221	Info in main headings field	body-providing bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1826
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1826
Notes public		ID Number	3918
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