Some relating words such as'insane','mad', and'lunatic'used more frequently in psychiatry; however the laws against suicide and the verdicts " felo de se and " " Non compos mentis " had never faded until the late nineteenth century.
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In the finding of a jury, the deceased who was stigmatized " felo de se ", would be excluded from burial in consecrated ground and would forfeit their estate to the Crown, while these penalties would not apply to the deceased affirmed " non compos mentis ", i . e . deemed to be insane.
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After the civil war, political and social changes, judicial and ecclesiastical severity gave way to official leniency for most people who died by suicide . " Non compos mentis " verdicts increased greatly, and " felo de se " verdicts became as rare as " non compos mentis " had been two centuries earlier.
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Not going as far as Thaddeus Stevens in seeing the seceded states as " conquered provinces, " he nonetheless argued that by declaring secession, they had committed " felo de se " ( " state suicide " ) and could now be turned into territories that should be prepared for statehood, under conditions set by the national government.
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However, a news report in 1866 concerning the suicide of Eli Sykes, a prisoner awaiting the death sentence at Armley gaol in Leeds, stated that the inquest jury returned a verdict of " felo de se " and " in consequence of that verdict the body would be buried at midnight, without any religious ceremony, within the precincts of the gaol ."
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In English law, " Non compos mentis " was a juristic term to describe a person's action as not motivated by reason, but being influenced by some false image or mental impression . " Non compos mentis " and " Felo de se " ( the Latin word for self-murder, ) presented two different verdicts in the case of a suicide.
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The property of criminals caught alive and put to death because of a guilty plea or jury conviction on a not guilty plea could be forfeited, as could the property of those who escaped justice and were outlawed; but the property of offenders who died before trial, except those killed during the commission of crimes ( who fell foul of the law relating to " felo de se " ), could not be forfeited, nor could the property of offenders who refused to plead and who were tortured to death through " peine forte et dure ".
