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To forfeit
to, by some error, fault, offence or crime', 'to incur a penalty'. 'Forfei-ture', as judicially annotated, is 'a punishment annexed by law to some illegal act or negligence', something imposed as a punishment for an offence or
Threats
to threats to accuse of certain serious crimes, and BLACKMAIL. The sending of letters threatening to murder is punishable by penal servitude not exceeding ten years (Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 16). The sending of
Terrorism
and reach of the intended terrorist activity travels beyond the effect of an ordinary crime capable of being punished under the ordinary penal law of the land and its main objective is to overawe the Government to
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Special reasons
Special reasons, the words 'special reasons' in the context in which they are used could only means special to the accused on whom sentence is being imposed. 'Special reasons' in the context of sentencing process must...
Parole, furlough
Parole, furlough, when a prisoner is on parole his period of release does not count towards that the total period of sentence while he is on furlough he is eligible to have the period of release...
Roman Catholics
of Papists (see that title), after the Reformation, an Act of Elizabeth, for instance, 13 Eliz. c. 2, punishing with the penalties of a pr'munire (see that title) any person bringing into this country any Agnus Dei,
Remanet
Remanet, means a case or proceeding whose hearing has been postponed; a remainder or remant, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1296. Remanet, the name given to a cause the trial of which has been postponed...
Rape
government. 2. The carnal knowledge of a woman by force against her will was for a long period punished as a capital crime in the country; but it is now provided (see s. 48 of the Offences
Punitive and preventive detention
Punitive and preventive detention, 'punitive deten-tion' is intended to inflict punishment on a person, who is found by the judicial process to have committed an offence, while 'preventive detention'
Previous conviction
(7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 28), reciting that 'it is expedient to provide for the more exemplary punishment of offenders who commit felony after a previous conviction for felony,' empowered a Court to inflict transportation for
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