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Epiphonema

An exclamatory sentence or striking reflection which sums up or concludes a discourse

Doom

Judgment judicial sentence penal decree condemnation

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Reprieve

Reprieve [fr. reprendre, Fr., to take back], the suspension of the execution of a criminal's sentence. It may take place (1) ex mandato regis, at the mere pleasure of the Crown. Or (2) ex

crime for which the perpetrator would suffer forfeiture of all real and personal property as well as whatever sentence was imposed. Under U.S. law, there is no forfeiture of all of the felon's property (real or personal)

Heat of passion

Recent CR 472: (2006) 4 CRJ 437. Subsequent procedures did not impose a heavier penalty than the indeterminate sentence imposed by the trial judge and did not go beyond the sentence of the court. Indeed it is

Parole

Parole is not a suspension of sentence, but is a substitution, during continuance of parole, of lower grade of punishment by confinement in legal custody

Or

must have been used, Morgan v. Thomas, (1882) 9 QBD 643 (645), per Jessel (MR). Or, in the sentence any 'any person concerned in any such offence shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding three times

Murder

as a felon.'--(English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100), s. 1. See SENTENCE OF DEATH. The execution, formerly public, has taken place in prison since 1868. See CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. On the

Remit

Remit, means to pardon, to refrain from inflicting to give up. A remission of sentence does not mean acquittal, Ram Deo Chauhan v. State of Assam, AIR 2001 SC 2231. [See Constitution of

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