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Previous conviction

(7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 28), reciting that 'it is expedient to provide for the more exemplary punishment of offenders who commit felony after a previous conviction for felony,' empowered a Court to inflict transportation for

cruel and unusual punishment

has held that the death penalty in itself does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment, although mandatory death sentences do.

Punish

To impose a penalty upon to afflict with pain loss or suffering for a crime or fault either with or without a

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Bill of pains and penalties

Bill of pains and penalties, a special Act of the legislature which inflicts a punishment, less than death, upon persons supposed to be guilty of treason of felony, without any conviction in the

pain

pain 1 : punishment 2 a : physical discomfort associated with bodily disorder (as disease or injury) b : acute mental or

Rabbit

Act, 1831, ss. 30-32 of which render trespass in the daytime in pursuit of conies punishable on summary conviction by fine upto 2l; trespassers may be required to quit the land and to tell their names and

Penal statute

statute or penal law is a law that defines an offence and prescribes its corresponding fine, penalty or punishment, Karnataka Rare Earth v. Senior Geologist, (2004) 2 SCC 783 (791). Those which impose penalties or punishments for

Accessary, or Accessory

who knows that a crime has been committed and who helps the offender try to escape arrest or punishment. As to the trial and punishment of accessories:-By the (English) Accessories and Abettors Act, 1861, an accessory before

Specific provision to the contrary

Act (Act 60 of 1960) respectively was to give separate treatment to delinquent children in trial, conviction and punishment for offences including offences punishable with death or imprisonment for life. S. 27 is not 'a specific provision

Mulct

A fine or penalty esp a pecuniary punishment or penalty

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