Welcome to my library of historic funeral and cemetery law books! Linked digitized books include funeral, mortuary, and cemetery law references, and related resources. I separated the funeral and cemetery categories, but there is some cross-over in each set. Most references deal with the United States, or specific states, but there are also references for Great Britain.
I wrote a blog post introducing the collection.
Historic Funeral and Mortuary Law Books |
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Year and Volume |
Title/Description |
Funeral Law Online |
| 1896 | Mortuary Law | Internet Archive |
| 1924 | American Funeral Law: A Manual of Law Affecting Funeral Directors and Embalmers | Google Books |
| 1978 | Funeral Directors’ Handbook on Death Registration and Fetal Death Reporting | Google Books |
| 2003 | Death Care Industry: Regulation Varies Across States and by Industry Segment | Google Books |
| 1943 | [California] Funeral Directors and Embalmers Law, Approved June 2, 1943 | Internet Archive |
| 1913 | [Illinois] List of Licensed Embalmers | Internet Archive |
| 1946 | [Indiana] Laws, Rules, Regulations and Establishments. Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors. | Hathi Trust |
| 1974 | Statutes, Rules & Regulations of the Indiana State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors | Hathi Trust |
| 1921 | [Iowa] Offical List of Licensed Embalmers | Internet Archive |
| 1966 | The Kansas State Board of Embalming | Hathi Trust |
| 1963 | Montana State Board of Morticians: Laws, Rules and Regulations | Internet Archive |
| 1901 | Law as to Cemeteries, Undertakers, Embalmers and Burials in the State of New York, with Statutory Amendments Down to and Including the Session of 1901 | Hathi Trust |
| 1910 | [Rhode Island] Rules and Regulations of the State Board of Registration in Embalming; List of Registered Embalmers and Rules for Transportation of the Dead | Internet Archive |
| 1914 | [Tennessee] Embalmers’ Law, House Bill 125 | Internet Archive |
| 1913 | Embalming Laws of the State of Wyoming | Internet Archive |
| 1955 | The History of American Funeral Directing [Log in to borrow] | Internet Archive |
Historic Cenetery Law Books |
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Year and Volume |
Title/Description |
Cemetery Law Online |
| 1911 | Regulations for the Government of National Cemeteries | Google Books |
| 1922 | American Cemetery Law: A Digest of the Cemetery Laws of all the States and Important Court Decisions | Hathi Trust |
| 1931 | National Cemetery Regulations | Google Books |
| 1879 | Laws of the State of New York Relating to Religious Corporations; also, the Act Authorizing the Incorporation of Benevolent, Charitable, Scientific and Missionary Societies; Together with the Statutues Relating to Burial Grounds and Cemeteries. With Notes of Judicial Decisions. | Google Books |
| 1850 | [England] The Metropolitan Interments Act: 1850, with Introductions, Notes, and Appendix | Google Books |
| 1881 | [Great Britain] The Law Relating to the Burial of the Dead. Including the Burial Acts, 1852 to 1871, and the Burial Laws Amendment Act, 1880, Together with the Provisions of the Church Buildings Acts Relating to Burial Grounds; also the Law Relating to the Burial of the Poor, and the Regulations of the Secretary of State with Regard to Burial Grounds. With Notes and Cases. | Google Books |
| 1901 | [Great Britain] Baker’s Law Relating to Burials. Being the Burial Acts and all the Statutes Affecting the Subject as Amended by the Local Government Act 1894, with Introduction, Notes and Forms, and the Regulations and Directions of the Home Office and Local Government Board. | Google Books |
