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Corrective institution
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house of correction
house of correction :an institution where persons who have committed minor offenses and who are considered capable of reformation are confined
prison
an institution usually under state control for confinement of persons serving sentences for serious crimes compare house of correction, house of detention, jail, lockup, penitentiary
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Protective home
not include-- (i) a shelter where [undertrials] may be kept in pursuance of this Act, or (ii) a corrective institution. [Immoral Traffic (Preven-tion) Act, 1956 (104 of 1956), s. 2 (g)]
Correctional
Tending to or intended for correction used for correction as a correctional institution
Coke, Sir Edward
of the Criminal Law, 3rd Edn. 1883, at p. 364, to be an 'utter incapacity for anything like correct language or consecutive thoughts.' Lord Campbell, however, writes that his First Institute (being the Commentary on Littleton) 'may … 'the cursed gallows tree' so frequently in use in his day. He died in 1634. Author of the Institutes and The Reports (see those titles), and of an edition of Littleton's Treatise on Tenures. A famous text-writer
custody
freedom is controlled or restrained by legal authority penal custody : custody of a person (as in a correctional institution) as a form of punishment phys·i·cal custody : custody of a person (as an arrestee) whose freedom
misnomer
in a complaint or indictment) ;specif : the institution of proceedings against and service of process on the correct party using the incorrect name compare idem sonans NOTE: Amendment of the pleadings is generally allowed in cases
High Commission Court
Eliz. c. 1. It was instituted to vindicate the dignity and peace of the Church by reforming and correcting the ecclesiastical state and persons, and all manner of errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempt's, and enormities. The … High Commission Court, established by 1 Eliz. c. 1. It was instituted to vindicate the dignity and peace of the Church by reforming and correcting the ecclesiastical state and persons,
Civic nature
positively anti-social aims could claim to have objects of a civic nature. I do not consider that is correct because the requirement that a body has objects which are of a civic nature if it is to … the relationship of citizens, not among themselves, but with the state of which they are citizens, Expert Witness Institute v. Customs Comrs. (CA), (2002) 1 WLR 1674. Meant aims which were dignified as distinct from efficient, Expert
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