DEPORTATIO

deportatio  (dee-por-tay-shee-oh),  n.[fr.  Latin  deportare  “to  carry  away”]  Roman  law.

Permanent exile of a condemned criminal involving loss of citizenship and, usu., forfeiture of all

property. Cf. RELEGATIO.

“Deportatio.  Perpetual  banishment  of  a  person  condemned  for  a  crime.  It  was  the  severest

form  of banishment since it included additional penalties, such as seizure of the  whole  property,

loss  of  Roman  citizenship,  confinement  to  a  definite  place.  Under  the  Principate it replaced  the

former interdictio aqua et igni. The emperor could grant the deportee full amnesty, which restored

him  to  his former  rights (postliminium).  Places  of  deportatio  were islands (in  insulam)  near  the

Italian shore or an oasis in the Libyan desert.” Adolf Berger, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman

Law 432 (1953). [Blacks Law 8th]