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Deprivation

the proper Court for fit and sufficient causes; such as conviction of infamous crime; for heresy, gross immorality, and the like,

which, if carried to its conclusion, might result in the conviction or the person charged and in a sentence of some

not a 'crime' and is punishable on indictment or summary conviction. In our law misdemeanour is generally used in cotradistinction to

of the animal where necessary, and to deprive any person convicted of cruelty of the ownership of the animal. And by

of a crime who has a certain number of prior convictions for offenses of a specified kind (as felonies) and is

law : a law that imposes greater penalties if a convicted defendant has previously been convicted of one or more crimes

the Court. A person charged under this s. may be convicted under the (English) Infant Life (Preservation) Act, 1929 (19 &

an assault occasioning actual bodily harm the accused may be convicted of a common assault, R. v. Oliver, (1860) 30 LJMC

& 14 Vict. c. 39 for the confine-ment of male convicts under sentence of trans-portation, and later used for the confinement

that the names, addresses and offences of bakers and others convicted of adulterating bread may be directed by the convicting justices