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Hard labour
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hard labor
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Difficult
Hard to do or to make beset with difficulty attended with labor trouble or pains not easy arduous … Hard to do or to make beset with difficulty attended with labor trouble or pains not easy arduous
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Penal Servitude
Act, 1853, has superseded transportation (see that title) beyond the seas; but is in all respects as to hard labour, etc., similar to it. It ranges in duration from three years to the life of the convict. The … unless such future Act otherwise provides, award imprisonment for any term not exceeding 2 years, with or without hard labour. By the Penal Servitude Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 58), the Court is given power
Dog stealing
Dog stealing is punishable on summary conviction, for the first offence, by six months' imprisonment and hard labour, or fine not exceeding 20l. beyond the value of the dog. A second offence is, however, an indictable … value of the dog. A second offence is, however, an indictable misdemeanour, punishable by imprisonment with or without hard labour not exceeding eighteen months. Similar punishment is provided for persons found in possession of dogs or their skins,
Vagrants
any justice of the peace may commit them (being convicted before him) to the house of correction to hard labour for not more than one month subject to an appeal to the sessions, viz.:-(1) Every person able to … it is lawful for any justice to commit (being convicted before him) to the house of correction to hard labour for not more than three months, subject, as in the case of idle and disorderly persons, to an
Labour, Hard
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Accessary, or Accessory
the fact is in general punishable with imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years (with or without hard labour), and may also be required to find security to keep the peace, or in default to suffer an … punishable by penal servitude for life, or not less than three years, or by imprisonment (with or without hard labour) to the extent of two years. (English) Offences Against the Person Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. C.
Falsification
his solicitor to accept the title offered, is a misdemeanour punishable by fine or imprisonment with or without hard labour, or both, for not more than two years, by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 183, … kept in penal servitude for a term not exceeding seven years, or to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two years. See as to falsification of accounts, Re Arton, (1896) 1 QB
Poaching
the commencement of the first hour before sunrise, 'game,' as above defined, is punishable summarily by imprisonment with hard labour; and any persons, to the number of three or more, by night unlawfully entering lands, for the purpose … and liable to penal servitude for any term between seven and three (now five) years, or imprisonment with hard labour for not more than three years; see Night Poaching Act, 1828. Any constable, in any highway, etc., may
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