Consecutive Sentence - Law Dictionary Search Results
Respite
the hearing to a future day. Consult Pritch. on Q. Sess. Also, interval, reprieve, suspension of a capital sentence, a delay, forbearance, or continuation of time. There are respite of execution, of debt, of homage, and of
Wakening
persons cited on the first should compare, hear, and see the aforesaid action called, awakened, and debated, till sentence be given, Bell's Scots Law Dict.
To be confined in a cell
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
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Tichborne case
afterwards that he was Sir Roger Charles Doughty Tichborne, who had been drowned at sea in 1854, was sentenced in 1873 to fourteen years' penal servitude-being seven years (the maximum sentence for perjury) for each of two
Then
time' or 'in that case' according to the context. If this word is used twice in the same sentence construed in the first instance, it points to the event and in the second as an adverb of
Sus. Per coll
hanged by the neck'-was the usual indorsement by the clerk of arraigns in the case of a capital sentence. At the present day indorsements are in English, and no special form of words is used.
Special Leave to Appeal
Supreme Court of India possesses the power to grant special leave to appeal from any judgment, decree, determination, sentence or order in any cause or matter passed or made by any court or tribunal in the territory
Sententia non fertur de rebus non liquidis; et oportet quod certa res deducatur in judicium
Sententia non fertur de rebus non liquidis; et oportet quod certa res deducatur in judicium (Jenk. Cent. 7), sentence is not given on things not proven; and something definite ought to be brought to judg-ment.
Sententia interlocutoria revocari potest, definitiva non potest
Sententia interlocutoria revocari potest, definitiva non potest (Bac. Max.), an interlocutory sentence may be recalled, but not a final.
Sententia contra matrimoniam nunquam transit in rem judicatam
Sententia contra matrimoniam nunquam transit in rem judicatam (7 Co. Rep. 43), a sentence against marriage never becomes res judicata
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