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Judicial separation
Acts the husband can be ordered to make weekly payments to his wife, which can be enforced by imprisonment [R. v. Richardson, (1909) 2 KB 851], but her judgment creditor cannot obtain equitable execution by the appointment
Nun
of Westminster the Second) punishes the abduction of a nun, though consenting, from her convent by three years' imprisonment and fine. Nuns are excepted from Jury Service by 12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 11.
Justifiable homicide
body. The prisoners in this case were sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to six months' imprisonment.
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Forced labour
service to another or it may be force exerted through a legal provision such as a provision for imprisonment or fine in case the employee fails to provide labour or service or it may even be compulsion
In the discharge of duty
willfully obstructs or impedes any railway servant in the discharge of his duty, he shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred
Hue and Cry
But if a man wantonly or maliciously raise a hue and cry, he is liable to fine and imprisonment, and to an action at the suit of the party injured. The Criminal Law Act, 1826 (7 Geo.
Horses
horses, see Larceny Act, 1916, s. 3. Cruelty to horses is punishable on summary convic-tion by fine or imprisonment, under the Protection of Animals Act, 1911, s. 1, as amended by the Protection of Animals, etc., Act.
High Steward, Court of the Lord
that of Earl Russell, who was convicted of bigamy on 17th July, 1901, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. See The Trial of Earl Russell, 1901 AC 446; and the trial of Lord de Clifford, 1936 WN
Gypsies
and chattels, and should leave the kingdom within fifteen days after command so to do, upon pain of imprisonment, 4 Reeves, c. xxx., 420. Both this Act, and the still more severe 1 & 2 P. &
Fugitive offenders
Fugitive offenders. Where a person accused of any offence punishable by imprisonment with hard labour for twelve months or more, has left that part of his Majesty's dominions where the
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