RELEGATIO

relegatio (rel-[schwa]-gay-shee-oh), n. [fr. Latin relegare “to send away”] Roman law. Temporary or permanent banishment of a condemned criminal from Rome and the criminal’s native province, without loss of citizenship or forfeiture of all the criminal’s property. Cf. DEPORTATIO. “Relegatio. The expulsion of a citizen ordered either by an administrative act of a magistrate or […]