Disfranchisement
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
deprived of their rights · disfranchised · disfranchisement · lost their rights · specific disabilities
in the texts
On the Mysteries
Legal loss or limitation of citizen rights, including total and partial disabilities.
According to a second, delinquents lost all personal rights, but retained possession of their property.
They lost their rights in these two respects, because in their case the limited disability took this particular form.
and those guilty of massacre or attempted tyranny— shall one and all have their names everywhere cancelled by the Superintendents of Revenue and by the Council in accordance with the foregoing, wherever any public record of their offence be found;
Against Leptines
Loss of civic rights imposed as a penalty under the disputed law.
But Leptines has used a different measure and says that if anyone claims a return from you, he shall be disfranchised, and his property shall be confiscated.