Imprisonment - Law Dictionary Search Results
Misprision
trust and employment, usually punishable by parliamentary impeachment; also, embezzlement of the public money, punishable by fine and imprisonment; also, such contempts of the executive magistrate as demonstrate themselves by some arrogant and undutiful behaviour towards the
Indecent assault
c. 100), s. 52, where by such an assult on a female is an indictable offence, punishable by imprisonment with or with-out hard labour up to two years; and s. 62, whereby such an assault on a
Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum
(English) Habeas Corpus Act, 1679 (31 Car. 2, c. 2), did not newly establish the remedy for unjust imprisonment by writ of habeas corpus, but, reciting the shifts of gaolers and others to avoid their yielding obedience
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Execution
to be borne in mind that by the (English) Debtors Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 62), imprisonment for debt has been abolished, except as specified in s. 4. See IMPRISONMENT. By (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord.
Oysters
marked out is felony and punishable as simple larceny, i.e., by penal servitude up to three years, or imprisonment up to three years, and, if a male under 16, with or without whipping. Dredging or netting for
Age
24 Geo. 5, c. 12), which provides that a 'child,' i.e., a person under 14, shall not be imprisoned or sent to prison or penal servitude; and a 'young person,' i.e., a person of 14 or upwards
Confinement
child whether alive or dead. [Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 (34 of 1948), s. 2(3)] The act of imprisoning or restraining someone; the state of being imprisoned or restrained, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.
Magna Carta
it is better to give it in the original, which is as follows:- 'Nullus liber homo capiatur vel imprisonetur aut disseisiatur de libero tenemento suo vel libertatibus vel liberis consuetudinibus suis, aut utlagetur aut exuletur aut aliquo
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
Kidnapping
own country, and sending them into another. It is an offence punishable at Common Law by fine and imprisonment; and the kidnapping a child under fourteen is made felony by the (English) Offences against the Person Act,
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