Correction - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: correctionCorrectness
The state or quality of being correct as the correctness of opinions or of manners correctness of taste correctness in writing or speaking the correctness of a text or copy...
House of correction
House of correction, a species of goal which does not fall under the sheriff's charge, but is governed by a keeper wholly independent of that offence.1. A reformatory 2. A place for the contaminant of furnace offenders or those who have committed crimes of cesser magnitude, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Houses of Correction, fist established in the reign of Elizabeth, were originally designed for the penal confinement (after conviction) of paupers and vagrants refusing to work; but by 5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 38, ss. 3, 4, reciting that great inconvenience and expense had been found to result from the practice of committing to the common goal where it happens to be remote from the place of trial, it is enacted that a justice of the peace, or coroner, may commit for safe custody to any house of correction situate near the place where the assizes or sessions are to be held; and that offenders sentenced in those courts may be committed, in execution of such sentence, to any house of correction f...
Correctional
Tending to or intended for correction used for correction as a correctional institution...
Corrective
That which has the power of correcting altering or counteracting what is wrong or injurious as alkalies are correctives of acids penalties are correctives of immoral conduct...
Correct
Set right or made straight hence conformable to truth rectitude or propriety or to a just standard not faulty or imperfect free from error as correct behavior correct views...
Corrective institution
Corrective institution, means an institution, by whatever name called (being an institution established or licensed as such under s. 21), in which persons, who are in need of correction, maybe detained under this Act, and includes a shelter where undertrials may be kept in pursuance of this Act. [Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 (104 of 1956), s. 2 (b)]...
correction
correction 1 : a decline in market price or business activity following and counteracting a rise 2 : the treatment and rehabilitation of offenders through a program involving penal custody, parole, and probation often used in pl. cor·rec·tion·al adj ...
house of correction
house of correction :an institution where persons who have committed minor offenses and who are considered capable of reformation are confined compare house of detention, jail, lockup, penitentiary, prison ...
Correctible
Capable of being corrected...
Correction
The act of correcting or making that right which was wrong change for the better amendment rectification as of an erroneous statement...
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