Note 81 — 1. OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.
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The punishment of dissection is now added by Act of Parliament to the execution for murder only, but this does not exclude the right of the Crown to the disposal of the bodies of all executed traitors and felons. The words of the grant of Elizabeth, are “quod jure publico hujus regni furti homioidii vel cujuscumque feloniæ condamnatum et mortuum fuerit.” Charter 7 Eliz. Goodall’s Collection, p. 35.