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Mitigation
to the judge, after verdict or plea of guilty, and which may be followed by a speech in aggravation from the prosecuting counsel. By 27 & 28 Vict.c.110, justices were prohibited from mitigating minimum penalties in pursuance
Larceny
rightful owner of the same. Larceny is a felony, and is either simple or accompanied with circumstances of aggravation: (1) Simple larceny at Common Law, or plain theft. To constitute the offence there must be an unlawful
Judicial separation
the Married Women (Maintenance) Acts, 1895 to 1925, to the wife, on the conviction of the husband of aggravated assault, or on the ground of persistent cruelty, forcing her to live apart from him, or on the
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Homicide
of a human being. In its several stages of guilt, arising from the parti-cular circumstances of mitigation or aggravation which attends it, it is either justifiable, excusable, or felonious. I. Justifiable, of three kinds: (a) Where the
Exemplary damages
damages on an unsparing scale, given in respect of tortious acts, committed through malice or other circumstances of aggravation. In Belt. v. Lawes, (1884) 2 QBD 356, an action by a sculptor for libellously styling him an
Equality
not have a different content from equality under art. 14. Equality of opportunity for unequals can only mean aggravation of inequality. Equality of opportunity admits discrimination with reason and prohibits discrimination without reason, State of Kerala v.
Drunkenness
voluntarius d'mon, has no privilege thereby; but what hurt or ill so ever he doth, his drunkenness doth aggravate it; nam crimen ebrietas et incendit et detegit.' Nevertheless, 'although drunkenness is no excuse for any crime whatever,
Cruelty
which a Court of Summary Jurisdiction may order that a wife whose husband has been convicted of an aggravated assault upon her, or has been guilty of persistent cruelty to her, can leave and live apart from
Champarty or champerty
c. 25; 13 Edw. 1, st. , c. 9; and 32 Hen. 8, c. 9. It is an aggravated form of maintenance, See Hutley v. Hutley, (1873) LR 8 Q 112; Attorneys and Solicitors Act (in re:),
sentence
punishment for an offense and is subject to the upward or downward adjustment of its severity depending on aggravating and mitigating factors split sentence : a sentence of which part is served in prison and the other
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