Prisonment - Law Dictionary Search Results
Mainprise
A writ directed to the sheriff commanding him to take sureties called mainpernors for the prisoners appearance and to let him go at large This writ is now obsolete
Marshalsea
The court or seat of a marshal hence the prison in Southwark belonging to the marshal of the kings household
paddy wagon
An enclosed truck used by police to transport prisoners
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patrol wagon
An enclosed truck used by police to transport prisoners
Ransom
The release of a captive or of captured property by payment of a consideration redemption as prisoners hopeless of ransom
Re demption
act of redeeming or the state of being redeemed repurchase ransom release rescue deliverance as the redemption of prisoners taken in war the redemption of a ship and cargo
VerbarSignificavit
ordinary of a mans standing excommunicate by the space of forty days for the laying him up in prison till he submit himself to the authority of the church
Bar, trial at
Bar, trial at, the trial of a cause or prisoner before the Court itself instead of at Nisi Prius. It is confined to cases of great importance, and
Skilligalee
A kind of thin weak broth or oatmeal porridge served out to prisoners and paupers in England also a drink made of oatmeal sugar and water sometimes used in the English
Abracadabra
but at once pragmatic and astute and does not surrender its power before scary exaggeration of security by prison bosses' [Sunil Batra v. Delhi Administration, AIR 1978 SC 1675 (1720), para 192]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)
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