That extinction of civil rights and capacities which takes place when-ever a person who has committed treason or felony receives sentence of death for his crime. 1 Steph. Comm. 408; 1 Bish. Crim. Law, $ G41; Green. v. Shumway, 39 N. ¥. 431; In re Garland, 32 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 251; Cozens v. Long, 3 N. J. Law, 766; State v. Hastings, 37 Neb. 96, 55 N. W. 781
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
