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Eddie August Schneider's (1911–1940) death certificate, issued in New York.. A death certificate is either a legal document issued by a medical practitioner which states when a person died, or a document issued by a government civil registration office, that declares the date, location and cause of a person's death, as entered in an official register of deaths.
As early as 1907, legislative attempts were made to require elected coroners be licensed physicians. [5] In 1913 the legislature abolished the office of coroner in all counties, except "counties of the first class" (the largest counties in the state), devolving the duties of coroner to the office of county attorney.
The coroner will also investigate when a death is deemed violent or unnatural, where the cause is unknown, where a death is the result of poisoning or industrial injury, or if it occurred in police custody or prison. The coroner's court is a court of law, and accordingly the coroner may summon witnesses.
In law, medicine, and statistics, cause of death is an official determination of the conditions resulting in a human's death, which may be recorded on a death certificate. A cause of death is determined by a medical examiner. In rare cases, an autopsy needs to be performed by a pathologist.
An unnatural cause of death results from an external cause, typically including homicides, suicides, accidents, medical errors, alcohol intoxications and drug overdoses. [6] [7] Jurisdictions differ in how they categorize and report unnatural deaths, including level of detail and whether they are considered a single category with subcategories, or separate top-level categories.
Maryland Law was founded in 1816 as the Maryland Law Institute. [4] David Hoffman is credited with founding the institute, and in 1817 he published his legal course Hoffman's Course of Legal Study . The school began regular instruction in 1824, [ 5 ] and it is the fourth oldest law school in the United States. [ 6 ]
James Joseph King (born August 23, 1974) is a politician and former member of the Republican Party in the U.S. State of Maryland. He represented district 33A in Anne Arundel County in the Maryland House of Delegates.
King being comforted by her mother at her father's funeral, in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph. Bernice Albertine King was born on March 28, 1963, in Atlanta, Georgia.. The day after she was born, her father had to leave for Birmingham, Alabama, but he rushed back when it was time for Bernice and her mother, Coretta, to leave the hospi