Cruel - Law Dictionary Search Results

Nero

A Roman emperor notorious for debauchery and barbarous cruelty hence any profligate and cruel ruler or merciless tyrant

Ogre

imaginary monster or hideous giant of fairy tales who lived on human beings hence any frightful giant a cruel monster

Lackey claim

Lackey claim, means a prisoner's assertion that incarceration or death now a protracted period is cruel and unusual punishment, Lackey v. Texas, 514 US 1045: 115 SCt. 1421 (1995).

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Remorseless

Being without remorse having no pity hence destitute of sensibility cruel insensible to distress merciless

corrupt jurors to be returned on trials, excessive bail to be taken, excessive fines to be imposed, and cruel punishments to be inflicted; all of which are declared to be illegal; and the Act declares that the

Fight

no premeditation. It must further be shown that the offender has not taken undue advantage or acted in cruel or unusual manner, Ghapoo Yadav v. State of Bihar, AIR 2003 SC 1620 (1622): (2003) 3 SCC 528.

Horses

1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 31). As to larceny of horses, see Larceny Act, 1916, s. 3. Cruelty to horses is punishable on summary convic-tion by fine or imprisonment, under the Protection of Animals Act, 1911,

Humanize

To render human or humane to soften to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits to refine or civilize

Torture

Torture, an account of this atrocious expedient may be found in the Encyclop'dia Britannica (tit. 'Torture'). Reference may also be made to Jardine's Reading on the Use of Torture in the Criminal Law of England previously...

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