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in duration from three years to the life of the convict. The (English) Criminal Law Consolidation Act of 1861 frequently authorise

the issue of two sons; collateral issue, where a criminal convict pleads any matter allowed by law, in bar of execution,

or Pelfre, booty; also the personal effects of a felow convict.

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action taken after the door has been closed on a convict. During parole period there is no suspension of sentence but

doubt existed "Commonwealth v. Gagliardi, 638 N.E.2d 20 (1994)"] compare convict

AC 417 (440). By statute the place where justices summarily convict is an open Court [(English) Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1848, s.

to be gone into by justices, allows justices to summarily convict, and gives 'privilege' (see LIBEL) to newspaper reports of proceedings

first indictment were such that he could have been lawfully convicted upon it by proof of the facts contained in the

Vict. c. 42: see, especially, ss. 9, 25. (2) To convict and punish summarily the procedure in these matters is chiefly

imprisonment, for the remainder of the natural life of the convict (vide: definition of 'life' in s. 45, I.P.C.) and the

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