Punishable - Law Dictionary Search Results
bill
attainder compare bill of pains and penalties in this entry 2 : a legislative act that imposes any punishment on a named or implied individual or group without a trial NOTE: Bills of attainder are prohibited by
Judgment
Judgment [fr. judgment, Fr.], judicial determination; decision of a Court. Under the former practice of the superior Courts, this term was usually applied only to the Common Law Courts, the term 'decree' being in general use...
probation
probation [Middle French, critical examination and evaluation, from Latin probation- probatio, from probare to test, approve, prove] 1 a : subjection to a period of evaluation and possible termination at the commencement of employment in a...
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operant conditioning
A process for causing animals to behave in a specific manner by rewarding or punishing the animal each time it performs a certain act after a time the animal comes to associate the
Damn
To condemn to declare guilty to doom to adjudge to punishment to sentence to censure
Chastisement
The act of chastising pain inflicted for punishment and correction discipline punishment
Chastise
To inflict pain upon by means of stripes or in any other manner for the purpose of punishment or reformation to punish as with stripes
youthful offender
range) who commits a crime but is granted special status entitling him or her to a more lenient punishment (as one involving probation or confinement in a special youth correctional facility) than would otherwise be available compare
suspend
suspend 1 : to debar temporarily from a privilege, office, or function 2 a : to stop temporarily [ trading] b : to make temporarily ineffective [ a license] c : stay [ a hearing] d...
reprieve
perhaps from Anglo-French repris, past participle of reprendre to take back, from Old French] : to delay the punishment of (as a condemned prisoner) n 1 a : the act of reprieving : the state of being
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