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Abstract
One of the most usual sights in any rural community in the United States is a church edifice with a cemetery in the immediate neighborhood. This condition of affairs, where a church society antedates the municipal corporation within whose limits it exists, can even occasionally be found in populous cities. Such cases, however, are fast disappearing. The demands of commerce and the doctrines of modern sanitation are too strong to be resisted. When a cemetery situated in the heart of a city is not abandoned on account of the monetary inducements held out by commercial interests, the law-making power of the city council and even of the state legislature is invoked. By forbidding the interment of any more bodies in such cemeteries the danger to sanitation is minimized and the property is put in a position where it will eventually become available for commercial purposes.
Recommended Citation
Carl Zollmann,
Church Cemeteries in the American Law,
14
Mich. L. Rev.
391
(1916).
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