Conviction - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: conviction Page: 2Accumulative judgment, Sentence
Accumulative judgment, Sentence. If a person already under sentence for a crime be convicted of another offence, the court is empowered to pass a second sentence, to commence after the expiration of the first....
conviction
conviction 1 : the act or process of convicting ;also : the final judgment entered after a finding of guilt [a prior of murder] [would not overturn the ] compare acquittal NOTE: Jurisdictions differ as to what constitutes conviction for various statutes (as habitual offender statutes). Conviction is rarely applied to civil cases. 2 : guilt [the judge will enter a judgment of "W. R. LaFave and J. H. Israel"] ...
Convict
Convict, a person found guilty of a crime or offence alleged against him, either by a verdict of a jury or other legal decision. The (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23), for abolishing forfeitures for treason and felony enables the Crown to appoint administrators of the Property of any convict sentenced to death or penal servitude for any treason or felony. The administrator has an absolute discretionary power of dealing with the convict' property, Carr v. Anderson, (1903) 2 Ch 279....
Autrefois convict
Autrefois convict (formerly convicted), plea of. The defence of a person charged with any crime that he has been already convicted of the same crime, entitling the party proving it to a discharge on the ground that nemo debet bis vexari pro una et eadem causa. See the principle recognized in s. 33 of the Interpretation Act, 1889; R. v. Sheridan and R. v. Grant, 155 LT 207 and 209, and for form of the plea, see s. 28 of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1851 (14 & 15 Vict. c. 100)....
autrefois convict
autrefois convict [Anglo-French, formerly convicted] : a defendant's plea stating that he or she has already been tried for and convicted of the same offense ...
post-conviction
post-conviction : relating to or occurring in the period following conviction [ review] ...
Pass sentence according to law
Pass sentence according to law, the power of the appellate court to pass a sentence must be measured by the power of the court from whose judgment an appeal has been brought before it, Jagat Bahadur v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1986 SC 945 (947). [Cr PC 1898, s. 423 (1) and 31(1)]...
suspended sentence
suspended sentence see sentence ...
split sentence
split sentence see sentence ...
presumptive sentence
presumptive sentence see sentence ...
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