Imprisonment - Law Dictionary Search Results
Penalty
State of Maharashtra, AIR 1975 SC 1549. Penalty, is legal or official punishment such as a term of imprisonment, N.K. Jain v. C.K. Shah, AIR 1991 SC 1289. [Employees' Provident Fund Act, 1952, s. 14] Means recovery
Crofton system
A system of prison discipline employing for consecutive periods cellular confinement associated imprisonment under the mark system restraint intermediate between imprisonment and freedom and liberation on ticket of leave
Abusing children
and afterwards 12) and under 16 (formerly 12 and afterwards 13), the offence is a misdemeanour punishable by imprisonment, with or without hard labour, to the extent of two years, (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885 (48
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Aggravated assaults
the provisions of s. 42 as to common assaults and batteries,' to give a convicted offender six months' imprisonment with hard labour or to fine him up to 20l. including costs (the maximum punishment for a common
Betting
or if there was any betting transaction with a person under 16 years, the offender is liable to imprisonment. Loitering for the purpose of betting includes distributing handbills containing offers to bet, etc., Dunning v. Swetman, (1909)
Brawling
by excommunication and suspension, and also, by the unrepealed but disused 1 Mary, st. 2, c. 3, by imprisonment until the party repent. By the Act of 1860, persons guilty of riotous, violent, or indecent behaviour in
Cessio bonorum
sufficient for that purpose. It otherwise operated only as a discharge pro tanto, and exonerated the debtor from imprisonment. Huberus informs us that in Holland a cessio bonorum does not even exempt from imprisonment unless the creditors
Birth, Concealing
or after his birth, endeavour to conceal the birth thereof, shall be guilty of a misdeameanour, punishable with imprisonment not exceeding two years. To constitute the offence it must be established that the mother was delivered of
Escape
by due course of law. Escapes are either in civil or criminal cases. (1) Civil. The abolition of imprisonment for debt has rendered this all but obsolete, and the sheriff is expressly discharged from any liability by
Incitement to Disaffection Act
on indictment may be two years or a fine up to 200l., or on summary conviction, four months' imprisonment or up to 20l., or in either case to both imprisonment and fine. Cf. Public Order Act, 1936.
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