dead body

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dead body - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  dead body
      n 1: a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person;
           "they found the body in the lake" [syn: body, dead body
           ]

dead body - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  DEAD BODY, crim. law. A corpse. 
       2. To take up a dead body without lawful authority, even for the 
  purposes of dissection, is a misdemeanor, for which the offender may be 
  indicted at common law. 1 Russ. on Cr. 414; 1 Dowl. & R. 13; Russ. & Ry. 
  366, ii. b; 2 Chit. Cr. Law, 35. This offence is punished by statute in New 
  Hampshire, Laws of N. H. 339, 340 in Vermont, Laws of Vermont, 368. c. 361; 
  in Massachusetts, stat. 1830, c. 51; 8 Pick. 370; 11 Pick. 350; in New York, 
  2 Rev. Stat. 688. Vide 1 Russ. 414, n. A. 
       3. The preventing a dead body from being buried, is also an indictable 
  offence. 2 T. R. 734; 4 East, 460; 1 Russ. on Cr. 415 and 416, note A. 
       4. To inter a dead body found in a river, it seems, would render the 
  offender liable to an indictment for a misdemeanor, unless he first sent for 
  the coroner. 1 Kenyon's R. 250.