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Wite

Wite [Sax.], a punishment, pain, penalty, mulct, or criminal fine. The wite was a penalty paid to the Crown by a murderer.

youthful offender

range) who commits a crime but is granted special status entitling him or her to a more lenient punishment (as one involving probation or confinement in a special youth correctional facility) than would otherwise be available compare

Bull

Bull [fr. bulla, Lat., a stud or boss], a brief or mandate of the Pope or Bishop of Rome, so called from the seal of lead or gold affixed to it, upon which was engraved on...

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Embezzlement

Embezzlement, the appropriation to his own use by a clerk or servant of money, valuable securities or chattels received by him for and on account of his master or employer. Embezzlement differs from larceny in this,...

Jeopardy

Jeopardy, means the risk of conviction and punish-ment that a criminal defendant faces at trial. Jeopardy attaches in a jury trial when the jury

Eggs

or widgeon, by any person not having the right of killing game upon the land is punishable on conviction before two justices with a fine of 5s. for every egg, by s. 24 of the Game Act,

Pigeons

amount to larceny at common law' is, by s. 23 of the (English) Larceny Act, 1861, punishable 'on conviction before a justice of the peace' by fine up to 2l., over and above the value of the

Justices

Justices, officers deputed by the Crown to ad-minister justice and do right by way of judgment. The judges of the Supreme Court are called justices, but the word is usually applied to petty magistrates who sit...

Mitigation

or diminution of anything painful harsh severe afflictive or calamitous as the mitigation of pain grief rigor severity punishment or penalty

Criminal Law

law defining offenses against the community at large, regulating how suspects are investigated, charged, and tried, and establishing punishment for convicted offenders, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.

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