Prisonment - Law Dictionary Search Results
detainer
: detention in custody 3 : a notification sent by a prosecutor, judge, or other official advising a prison official that a prisoner is wanted to answer criminal charges and requesting continued detention of the prisoner or
Capital punishment
Capital Punishment Amendment Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 24) (before which executions were public), within the prison in which the offender is confined at the time of execution, in the compulsory presence of the sheriff,
Gaoler
Gaoler, the master or keeper of a prison; one who has the custody of a place where prisoners are confined. See Prison Rules, 1899, Chit. Stat.,
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Lunatic
responsibility of insane persons, see MACNAUGHTON'S CASE, RULES IN. A jury may return the special verdict that a prisoner is guilty of the offence charged but insane at the time he committed it [(English) Trial of Lunatics
Sentence of a Court
that he be treated as a misdemeanant of the first division of misdemeanants, and not as a 'criminal prisoner' [(English) Prison Act, 1865, s. 67], and s. 6 of the Prison Act, 1898, provides for prisoners being
Solitary confinement
period than one month to a time, nor there months in the space of a year 'but the Prison Act, 1865, has since, by s. 17, enjoined the prevention of criminal prisoners from holding any communication with
Peine forte et dure
Peine forte et dure (the strong and hard pain) [peine (or penance), probably a corrupted abbreviation of prisone, 3 Bl. Com. 325], an old punishment by which a prisoner, indicted for felony, if he refused to
Previous conviction
on the trial of a subsequent offence until after conviction of it, unless (see CRIMINAL EVIDENCE ACT) the prisoner gives evidence of good character, in which case, or after conviction of the subsequent offence, it may be
Rescue
the law has been dealt with in by a number of Statutes from 23 Edw. 1. Aiding a prisoner to escape is a felony by the Prison Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 126), s. 37.
Ransom
Ransom [fr. rancon, Fr.], the price of redemption of a captive or prisoner of war, or for the pardon of some great offence. It differs from amerciament, because it excuses from
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