Civiliter Mortuus

Black’s Dictionary 1st Edition, page 208:

CIVILITER MORTUUS.

Civilly dead; dead in the view of the law. The condition of one who has lost his civil rights and capacities, and is accounted dead in law.

Bouvier’s Law Dictionary (1914), Volume 3, page 501:

CIVILITER MORTUUS.

Civilly dead. In a state of civil death.

In New York on sentenced to life imprisonment n the state prison is civiliter mortuus; Planter v. Sherwood, 6 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 118.