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Sentenced to imprisonment

Sentenced to imprisonment, the words 'sentenced to imprisonment' occurring after the words 'convicted by a competent court' in the second proviso

Wrongous Imprisonment

Wrongous Imprisonment, false imprisonment, Scots term.

false imprisonment

false imprisonment : the tort of intentionally restraining another by physical force or the threat of physical force without privilege

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Being under sentence of life imprisonment

Being under sentence of life imprisonment, means it would be limited to a sentence which has become final, absolute and indivisible so far as

Imprison ment

Matched in: Term Imprison ment

Emprison

See Imprison

Reimprison

To imprison again

Court

and judicial proceedings are enrolled for a perpetual memorial and testimony, and they have power to fine and imprison; or not of record, being courts of inferior dignity, and in a less propesense the King's Courts--and these

Duress

Duress [fr. duresse, Fr.; durities, Lat., constraint], imprisonment, compulsion. Duress is either by imprisonment or by threats. In order to constitute duress by imprisonment, either the

Bail

Bail [fr. bailler, Fr., to hand over], to set at liberty a person arrested or imprisoned, on security being taken for his appearance on a day and at a place certain, which security is

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