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Rabbit

game or rabbits by night is punishable on summary conviction by imprisonment up to three months with hard labour (with increased punishments for second or third offences); and by s. 9 of the same Act, armed persons

Prison

Prison Commissioners Directors of Convict Prisons, established three divisions of prisoners, not sentenced to penal servitude or hard labour, and restricted the authorization of corporal punishment. Both these Acts have been amended in certain respects by the

Penitentiary-houses

Penitentiary-houses, prisons where criminals were confined to hard labour. See the repealed 19 Geo. 3, c. 74, and GAOL.

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Perjury

of perjury and liable to penal servitude for not exceeding seven years, or imprisonment with or without hard labour for not exceeding two years, or to a fine, or to both penal servitude or imprisonment and fine;

Plant

orchard, greenhouse, etc., is punishable on summary conviction by imprisonment up to six months with or without hard labour, or by fine up to 20l.; a second offence being felony punishable as simple larceny. Stealing, etc., any

Sentence of a Court

and see the Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914, ss. 7-9. In sentencing any misdemeanant to imprisonment without hard labour, the court may order that he be treated as a misdemeanant of the first division of misdemeanants, and

Rape

not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour. See also the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885, by s. 4 of which connection induced by personation of

Riot

riots not falling within the provisions of the (English) Riot Act is fine and imprisonment to which hard labour may, by 3 Geo. 4, c. 114, be superadded. As to riots at elections, see 2 Wm., c.

Misdemeanour

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 an indictment for murder there may be

Sorcery

or otherwise, to deceive the people, are rogues and vagabonds, and to be punished with imprisonment and hard labour, Vagrancy Act, 1824 (5 Geo. 4, c. 83), s. 4.

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