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Whipping, a punishment not authorized in modern times except under a statutory enactment [(English) Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914]. No person can be whipped more than once for the same offence (ibid., s. 36). Numerous Acts provide for the whipping of boys under 16: adult males may be whipped, e.g., under the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1912, when convicted on indictment under the Vagrancy Act, 1898, for the second time, or when convicted of certain offences against women under s. 2 of the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885; and also for robbery with violence. See VAGRANT; GARROTTING.

A method of corporal punishment formerly used in England and a few American States, consisting of inflicting long welts on the skin, esp. with a whip, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1590.

The punishment was abolished for females by 1 Geo. 4, c. 57. As to the power of justices to order whipping of a male child (7-14), see Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 49), s. 10, as substituted by the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 60, 3rd Sch.