This Haitian Decree abolishes the status known as "civil death" whereby a person was convicted of serious crimes and deprived of all legal personality while physically still alive. The Decree also abolishes, as a ground of divorce, the existence of "civil death" on the part of one of the spouses.
这项海地法令废除了被称为“民事死亡”的状态,即一个人虽身体仍活着,但因被判犯有严重罪行而被剥夺所有法律人格。该法令还废除了配偶一方存在“民事死亡”这一离婚理由。