Autopsy

Crime, Fraud, Exhume, Autopsy

From the book The Clergyman’s Hand-book of Law, about Crime, Fraud, Exhume, Autopsy (1): In an action on an insurance policy where there is evidence of fraud, as death by poison, a court may order a body exhumed for examination, although the person having the right to control the burial of the body is not a party to the suit.814 Public officials have the right to disinter a body to ascertain whether a crime has been committed.815 But without a coroner’s inquest or consent of the surviving consort or next of kin, a doctor has no right to perform an autopsy (14 L. R. A., 85; Young v. College of Physicians, 81 Md., 358; 32 At., 177; 31 L. R. A., 540; Meyers v. Clarke, 28 Ky. L., 1000; 90 S. W., 1049; 5 L. R. A., N. S., 727).

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Autopsy

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• Inquest

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Notes and References

1. Charles M. Scanlan, The Clergyman’s Hand-book of Law. The Law of Church and Grave (1909), Benziger Brothers, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago

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• Religion
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