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Roman Catholics
Roman Catholics. Very severe laws, commonly called the penal laws, were passed against Roman Catholics, generally under the name of Papists (see that title), after the Reformation, an Act of Elizabeth, for instance, 13 Eliz. c....
Treason
(Misc. Prov.) Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 36), s. 1 (4), and Sch. I. The punishment of a convicted traitor is death by hanging, the ignominious adjuncts of drawing on a hurdle and quartering,
Knock-out
a dealer from giving any consideration or reward to anyone for abstaining or having abstained from bidding, under penalty on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding 100l. or imprisonment for not more than three months. A
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Pardon
The act of pardoning forgiveness as of an offender or of an offense release from penalty remission of punishment absolution
Ambassador
1708 (7 Anne, c. 12), which is declaratory of the Common Law, but imposes severe penalties, including corporal punishment, on persons violating its provisions. The King can veto the appointment of an ambassador, and this constitutional right
Amercement or Amerciament
Amercement or Amerciament, a pecuniary punish-ment or penalty assessed by the peers or equals of the party amerced for an offence, by the commission of which
Apprentice
the (English) Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act, 1875, s. 6, makes it an offence, punishable on summary conviction by fine or imprisonment with or without hard labour, for a master to neglect to provide food, etc.,
Disorderly houses
Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1922, s. 3, by which the keeping of bawdy houses is punishable on summary conviction, see Siviour v. Neapolitane, (1931) 1 KB 636; (lessee who sub-let not included); and Winter v. Woolfe, (1931)
Limitation of actions and prosecutions
is no period of limitation for prosecution of criminal offences generally, except where they are punishable on summary conviction, in which cases the period is six months, by the (English) Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1848 (11 & 12
Whipping
Whipping, a punishment not authorized in modern times except under a statutory enactment [(English) Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914]. No person
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