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No corpse to be buried in private grave without consent.
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170. Where by usage or otherwise any grave vault or place of interment in any burial ground or cemetery has been the burying place of and used as such by any family, no corpse of any person not having been a member of such family shall be buried in such grave vault or place of interment without the consent in writing of some immediate relative of the member of such family last interred therein; and if any person shall knowingly act or assist in any burial contrary to the provisions of this section, every such person shall be liable, on summary conviction before a court of summary jurisdiction, to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds; and upon any complaint made under this section it shall be lawful for the court to make such order for the exhumation and re-interment of such corpse so buried as to such court shall seem fit.
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