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Jail liberties, means bounds within which a jail or prison lies and throughout which certain prisoners are allowed to move freely, usu. after giving bond for the liberties. The bounds are considered an extension of the prison walls. Historically, jail liberties were given in England to those imprisoned for debt. The prisoners will be allowed to move freely within the city in which the prison was located also spelled goal liberties. Also termed jail limits, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 839....
jail
jail : a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody ;specif : such a place under the jurisdiction of a local government (as a county) for the confinement of persons awaiting trial or those convicted of minor crimes compare house of correction, house of detention, lockup, penitentiary, prison jail vt ...
jailing
The act or process of putting someone in prison or in jail as a lawful punishment...
Jail
Jail [fr. geole, Fr.], a prison or gaol....
Civil prison
Civil prison, means any jail or place used for the detention of any criminal prisoner under the Prisons Act, 1894, or under any other law for the time being in force. [Border Security Force Act, 1968, s. 2 (1) (e); means any jail or place used for the detention of any criminal prisoner under the prison Act or under any other law for the time being in force Army Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), s. 3 (iii)]--means any jail or place used for the detention of any criminal prisoner under the Prisons Act, 1894 or under any other law for the time being in force. [Air Force Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), s. 4 (xiii)]...
lockup
lockup 1 : a cell or group of cells (as in a courthouse) or jail where persons are held prior to a court hearing compare house of correction, house of detention, jail, penitentiary, prison 2 : the tactic of arranging with a friendly party an option to buy a valuable portion of one's corporate assets in order to discourage a takeover by another party ...
Imprisonment for life
Imprisonment for life, S. 428, Cr PC, 1973, does not apply to those convicted for 'imprisonment for life'. It is applicable only in case of accused persons who have, on conviction, been sentenced to imprison-ment for a term and the Penal Code as well as the Criminal Procedure Code make and maintain a clear distinction between 'imprisonment for a term' and 'imprisonment for life' in that the former means imprisonment for a definite or fixed period while the latter means imprisonment for the remainder of the natural life of the convict. The periods of life term mentioned in s. 57, IPC or the remission rules contained in Jail Manual (e.g. Para 516B of Punjab/Haryana Jail Manual) are irrele-vant in this context, Kartar Singh v. State of Haryana, AIR 1982 SC 1439: (1982) 3 SCC 1: (1983) 1 SCR 445.The expression 'imprisonment for life' must be read in the context of s. 45, IPC. So read in it would ordinarily mean imprisonment for the full or complete span of life, Ashok Kumar v. Union of Ind...
Such prisoner shall be confined in a cell apart prisoners
Such prisoner shall be confined in a cell apart prisoners, the expression 'such prisoner shall be confined in a cell apart prisoners' has a restricted meaning. It must be given a rational meaning to effectuate the purpose behind the provision so as not to attract the vice of solitary confinement. S. 366(2) of the Cr.P.C. enables the Court to commit the convicted person who is awarded capital punishment to jail custody under a warrant. It is implicit in the warrant that the prisoner is neither awarded simple nor rigorous imprisonment. The purpose of the sub-s. (2) s. 366 is to make available the prisoner when the sentence is required to be executed. He is being kept in jail custody. After the sentence becomes executable he may be kept in a cell apart from other prisoners with a day and night watch. But even here, unless special circumstances exist, he must be within the sight and sound of other prisoners and be able to take food in their company, Sunil Batra v. Delhi Administration, AIR...
booking
booking : a procedure at a jail or police station following an arrest in which information about the arrest (as the time, the name of the arrested person, and the crime for which the arrest was made) is entered in the police register NOTE: The arrested person is usually photographed and fingerprinted at the time of the booking. ...
gaol
gaol gaol·er chiefly Brit var of jail jailer ...
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