Imprisonment - Law Dictionary Search Results
Blasphemy
of gift,' or to bear any office within the realm for ever, and also to suffer three years' imprisonment. 'So far as I am aware,' wrote Sir F. Pollock in 1895 (Preface to 22 R. R. at
Birds
plumage thereof, knowing the same to have been stolen, shall be punishable on summary conviction by fine or imprisonment. As to unlawfully and wilfully killing or wounding house doves or pigeons under circumstances not amounting to larceny
Buggery
ten years, but by the effect of the Penal Servitude Act, 1891, a maximum term of two years' imprisonment may in the discretion of the Court be imposed. And see BLACK MAIL, and INFAMOUS CRIME.
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Cachet, letters de
letters issued and signed by the kings of France, and counter-signed by a secretary of state, authorizing the imprisonment of a person, usually in the Bastille. Abolished during the revolution of 1789.
Campfight
it were a crime deserving death, the campfight was for life or death; if the offence deserved only imprisonment, the campfight was accomplished when one combatant had subdued the other, so as either to make him yield
Capias ad respondendum
upon the former process of attachment, or had no substance whereby to be attached, subjecting his person to imprisonment, 3 Bl. Com. 281. See 48 Geo. 3, c. 58
Capias ad satisfaciendum
& 33 Vict c. 62), in any action whatever, unless the defendant could, but would not, pay. See IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT, and DEBT.
Challenges to fight
either by word or letter, or to the bearer of such challenges, are misdemeanours, punishable by fine and imprisonment. See DUEL.
Child
fine of appellant u/ss. 302, 302/34, 307 and 307/34, I.P.C. while to be maintained, the sentence of life imprisonment to be set aside, Bhoop Ram v. State of Uttar Pradesh, 1989 (3) SCC 1 [Juvenile Justice (Care
Children
or depraved character, and a child under fourteen can [s. 52 (1)] under no circumstances be sentenced to imprisonment or penal servitude. Ss. 53 to 59 give categorically the different methods of dealing with children under sixteen
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