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Prisoner

Prisoner, 'prisoner' means a person undergoing a sentence of imprisonment under an order passed by a criminal court including the courts established under the law for

Precedent

nor what logically follows from the various observations made in it. It is not proper to extract a sentence here and there from a judgment and to build upon it, State of Orissa v. Sudhansu Sekhar Misra,

Poor laws

(19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 25). If a prisoner on his release after the termination of his sentence is likely to need poor law relief, an order may be made for his removal to the workhouse

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Parum est latum esse sententiam nisi mandetur executioni

Parum est latum esse sententiam nisi mandetur executioni [Lat.], it is not enough that sentence be given unless it be carried to execution.

Parol

Parol, means release from jail, prison or other confinement after actually serving part of sentence; Conditional release from imprisonment which entitles parolee to serve remainder of his term outside confines of an institution,

Parkhurst prison

Wight for the confinement and correction of young offenders, male or female; now used for male prisoners under sentence of penal servitude.

Nominativus pendens

Nominativus pendens, a nominative case grammatically unconnected with the rest of the sentence in which it stands. The opening words in the ordinary form of a deed inter partes [This deed,

Neck-verse

Neck-verse, the Latin sentence miserere mei Deus, Psalm Likely to deceive or cause confusion. 1, because the reading of it was made

Neck verse

accused who claimed benefit of clergy. An accused who read the passage satisfactorily would not receive the maximum sentence (the person's neck would be saved), Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1053.

Misrecital

the end of a deed, it shall not hurt, but if it go to the end of a sentence, so that the deed is limited by it, it is vicious, Cart. 149

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