Many freemen-on-the-land hold that a 1666 Act of Parliament applies this status to everyone over the age of seven as part of a pseudolegal conspiracy. After being denied a bank loan for having this status, Lal Bihari founded an advocacy group in Uttar Pradesh named for people with this status. A “civil” form of this status, which encompasses the “monastery” form upon entry into consecrated life, parallels a “social” form of this status which (*) Orlando Patterson described in relation to slavery. Titanic clauses deal with situations where two people obtain this status simultaneously and both are intestate. A person must be of “sound mind and memory” for a document to take effect after the person acquires this status. For 10 points, identify this legal status which must apply to a person for the execution of their last will. ■END■
ANSWER: legal death [or clear equivalents indicating that someone has been declared or presumed to have suffered physical or legal death; accept word forms; accept social or civil death; accept Slavery and Social Death; accept dead man’s statute]
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