Conviction - Law Dictionary Search Results
Criminal Law
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.
Brothel
Act, 1872. A woman who keeps a house for the purpose of prostitution with herself alone cannot be convicted of keeping a brothel, Singleton v. Ellison, (1895) 1 QB 607. Includes any house, room, [conveyance] or place
Borstal institution
juvenile-adult reformatory which was opened at Borstal, near Rochester, in 1901, by utilizing a portion of the existing convict prison for the purpose. Power to establish Borstal Institutions is given by s. 4 of the (English) Prevention
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Accomplice
by virtue of (English) Lord Denman's Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. C. 85), s. 1, even though convicted, and now by virtue of the Criminal Evidence Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. C. 36), s. 1,
Birth, Concealing
that if any woman tried for the murder of a child is acquitted thereof, she can lawfully be convicted of concealment of birth if there is evidence of that offence. The (English) Infanticide Act, 1922, s. 1(4),
Bail
bail. Bail is granted to a person who has been arrested in a non-bailable offence or has been convicted of an offence after trial. The effect of granting bail is to release the accused from internment thought
Attains du fet
Attains du fet [Fr.], convicted of the fact,caught by it, having it brought home to one, Wedgw.
Articles of religion
case in 1850, the Wilson case in 1864, and the Bennet case in 1871; but in order to convict a clergyman for impugning them, it is not necessary that they should have been contradicted in so many
Amnesty
sovereign power officially forgiving certain classes of persons who are subject to trial but have not yet been convicted, e.g. the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act provided amnesty for undocumented aliens already present in the country,
Aggravated assaults
be sufficiently punished under the provisions of s. 42 as to common assaults and batteries,' to give a convicted offender six months' imprisonment with hard labour or to fine him up to 20l. including costs (the maximum
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