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Kidnapping for ransom

do or abstain from doing any act or to pay a ransom, shall be punishable with death, or imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to fine. (Indian Penal Code, s. 364A)

Liberty

sundry, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, Vol. 2, p. 1459. It is the right not only or freedom from servitude, imprisonment or restraint, but the right of one to use his faculties in all lawful ways, to live and

Knock-out

abstaining or having abstained from bidding, under penalty on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding 100l. or imprisonment for not more than three months. A bona fide joint account, a copy of such agreement has been

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Larceny

The punishment for simple larceny is in ordinary cases penal servitude for the term of three years, or imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and if the offender be a

Liberam legem amittere

to prison. It was anciently pronounced against conspirators, but is now disused, the punishment substituted being fine and imprisonment. Hawk. P.C. 61, c. lxxii. S. 9; 3 Inst. 221.

Mesne process

primary process, and before a capias ad satisfaciendum, which was the final process, or process of execution. See IMPRISONMENT. By the (English) Judgments Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 110), s. 1, the power of arrest

Lords' Act

made perpetual by 39 Geo. 3, c. 50, passed for the relief of debtors 'with respect to the imprisonment of their persons; and to oblige debtors continuing in execution in prison beyond a certain time, and for

Maiming

order that such minor may be employed or used for the purposes of begging shall be punishable with imprisonment for life and shall also be liable to the (Indian Penal Code, s. 363A). Also see MAYHEM.

Maintenance

This offence is punished by Common Law, and also by 1 Rich. 2, c. 4, by fine and imprisonment; and by 32 Hen. 8, c. 9, by a forfeiture of 10l. See CHAMPERTY. As to maintenance of

Misdemeanour

to statutory misdemeanours, to which no express punishment is attached, Common Law misdemeanours are punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both with or without hard labour. Any greater felony includes a less felony, so that, e.g., on

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