concept
Deprivation of All Rights of Status
deprivation of rights
also: лишение всех прав состояния, лишение прав и всего состояния
The formal Imperial Russian criminal sentence stripping a convict of all civil, property, and estate rights before penal exile; the returning witness garbles the phrase in the retelling, a slip Chekhov gives him deliberately rather than the correct legal term.
Reading notes
- In the Ravine §193 Dissolution of rights and of all property
The returning witness garbles the formal Russian sentencing phrase for "deprivation of all rights of status"; Chekhov gives him this mishearing deliberately, and it is preserved here rather than corrected.