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Confinement solitary. See SOLITARY CONFINE-MENT....
Quasi-solitary confinement
Quasi-solitary confinement, solitary confinement, but partial. In Sunil Batra's case the accused was locked up in a small cell. He was visited by guards and prison officals. A few callers were allowed to meet him once in a blue moon. [Sunil Batra v. Delhi Administration, AIR 1978 SC 1675 (1687), para 45]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...
Solitary confinement
Solitary confinement. The Criminal Law Consolida-tion Acts of 1861 each frequently provide for sentences of imprisonment 'with or without solit-ary confinement' in the discretion of the Court, and also that no offender shall be kept in solitary confinement for a longer period than one month to a time, nor there months in the space of a year 'but the Prison Act, 1865, has since, by s. 17, enjoined the prevention of criminal prisoners from holding any communication with each other, and these provisions of the Criminal Law Consolidation Acts have been consequently repealed by Statute Law Revision Acts.Separate confinement that gives a prisoner extremely limited access to other people, esp. the complete isolation of a prisoner, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1399....
Such prisoner shall be confined in a cell apart prisoners
Such prisoner shall be confined in a cell apart prisoners, the expression 'such prisoner shall be confined in a cell apart prisoners' has a restricted meaning. It must be given a rational meaning to effectuate the purpose behind the provision so as not to attract the vice of solitary confinement. S. 366(2) of the Cr.P.C. enables the Court to commit the convicted person who is awarded capital punishment to jail custody under a warrant. It is implicit in the warrant that the prisoner is neither awarded simple nor rigorous imprisonment. The purpose of the sub-s. (2) s. 366 is to make available the prisoner when the sentence is required to be executed. He is being kept in jail custody. After the sentence becomes executable he may be kept in a cell apart from other prisoners with a day and night watch. But even here, unless special circumstances exist, he must be within the sight and sound of other prisoners and be able to take food in their company, Sunil Batra v. Delhi Administration, AIR...
To be confined in a cell
To be confined in a cell, the phrase 'to be confined in a cell' does not mean a solitary cell, and 'apart from all other prisoners' only connotes that in a cell where there are a plurality of inmates the death sentence will have to be kept separated from the rest in the same cell but not too close to the others, and under a guard, Sunil Batra v. Delhi Administra-tion, AIR 1978 SC 1675: (1978) 4 SCC 494: (1979) 1 SCR 392....
arrest
arrest [Middle French arest, from arester to stop, seize, arrest, ultimately from Latin ad to, at + restare to stay] : the restraining and seizure of a person whether or not by physical force by someone acting under authority (as a police officer) in connection with a crime in such a manner that it is reasonable under the circumstances for the person to believe that he or she is not free to leave see also miranda warnings probable cause at cause, warrant compare stop cit·i·zen's arrest : an arrest made not by a law officer but by any citizen who derives the authority to arrest from the fact of being a citizen NOTE: Under common law, a citizen may make an arrest for any felony actually committed, or for a breach of the peace committed in his or her presence. civil arrest : the arrest and detention of a defendant in a civil suit until he or she posts bail or pays the judgment see also capias ad respondendum NOTE: Civil arrest is restricted or prohibited in most states. ...
Arrest
Arrest [fr. restae, Lat.; arrestare, It.; arrester, Fr., to bring one to stand], the restraining of the liberty of a man's person in order to compel obedience to the order of a Court of Justice, or to prevent the commission of a crime, or to ensure that a person charged or suspected of a crime may be forthcoming to answer it. Arrests are either in civil or (see APPREHENSION) criminal cases; civil arrests must be affected, in order to be legal, by virtue of a precept or writ issue out of some Court. The law of civil arrest (see MESNE PROCESS), so far as it still exists, is regulated by the Debtors Act, 1869 (see that title),which abolished imprisonment for debt except in special cases, as where a debtor has the means to pay his debt but refuses to do so, and s. 218 of the Companies Act, 1929, as to the power to arrest an absconding contributory in case of winding up by the Court. see also CONTEMPT OF COURT. The two great statues for securing the liberty of the subject against unlawful a...
Solitariness
Condition of being solitary...
Arrest of judgment
Arrest of judgment, Formerly an unsuccessful defendant might move that the judgment for the plaintiff be arrested or withheld, notwithstanding a verdict given, on the ground that there was some substantial error appearing on the face of the record which vitiated the proceedings. (See now R.S.C. Ords. XXVII. And XXXIX.) Judgment may be arrested for good cause in criminal cases, if the indictment be insufficient. See Archbold's Criminal Pleading.Means the staying of judgment after its entry, especially, a court's refusal to render or enforce a judgment because of a defect apparent from the record. At Common Law, courts have the power to arrest judgment for intrinsic causes appearing on the record, as when the verdict differs materially from the pleading or when the case alleged in the pleadings is legally insufficient. Today, that type of defect must typically be objected to before trial or before judgment is entered, so that the motion in arrest of judgment has been largely superseded, ...
confinement
confinement 1 : the act of confining 2 : the state of being confined ...
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