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CEMETERY

A place of burial, differing from a churchyard by its locality and incidents. by its locality, as it is separate and apart from any sacred building used for the performance of divine service; by its incidents that, inasmuch as no vault or burying-place In an ordinary churchyard can be purchased for a perpetuity, in a cemetery a permanent burial place can be obtained. Wharton. See Winters v. State, 9 Ind. 374; Cemetery Ass’n v. Board of Assessors, 37 La. Ann. 35; Jenkins v. Andover, 103 Mass. 104; Cemetery Ass’n v. New Haven, 43 Conn. 243, 21 Am. Rep. 643. Six or more human bodies being burled at one place constitutes the place a cemetery. Pol. Code Cal.

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