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.
Decree.
By this decree you reinstated those who had lost their rights;
Others were deprived of the right of bringing an indictment, or of lodging an information:
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.