Imprisonment - Law Dictionary Search Results
Fugitive
who flees or escape; a refuge 2. A criminal suspects who flees evades, or escapes arrest prosecution, or imprisonment, esp. by fleeing jurisdiction or by hiding, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 680.
Foreign Enlistment Act
state at war with any foreign state at peace with the Crown, he is punishable by fine and imprisonment or either; and by s. 11, if any person within the British Dominions 'prepares or fits out any
Forcible entry
c. 7; 15 Rich. 2, c. 2; 8 Hen. 6, c. 9), which make forcible entries punishable with imprisonment. The first of these statues provides that 'none shall make entry into any lands or tenements, but in
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Forcible detainer
original taking were unlawful it is a criminal offence against the public peace, and a misdemeanour, punishable by imprisonment and ransom at the pleasure of the Crown, 4 Bl. Com. 148. The wrongful retention of possession of
Fleta
he might be one of those lawyers who, for malpractice in their office as judges, were punished with imprisonment and pecuniary penalties, 2 Reeves, p. 279.
Fine capiendo pro terris
conviction by a jury, had his lands and goods taken, and his body imprisoned, to be remitted his imprisonment, and have his land and goods redelivered to him on obtaining favour of a sum of money, etc.,
Felony
its usefulness, was carried by a majority in the House of Lords. A serious crime usu. punishable by imprisonment for more than one year or by death, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 633.
Fare
second or subsequent offence either by fine up to 20l. or in the discretion of the Court by imprisonment up to one month on summary conviction, by the Regulation of Railways Act, 1889, superseding but not repealing
Or
also to indicate purely exclusive alter-natives, as in the expression 'a fine of two pounds or a week's imprisonment', Garrow's Law of Wills and Administration (Wellington, New Nealand), p. 378
Obsolete
by which elopement with a nun from her convent, although the nun consent, is punishable by three years' imprisonment and fine. For further instances, see the (English) Statute Law Revision Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 49);
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