Punishable - Law Dictionary Search Results
Punitive
Of or pertaining to punishment involving awarding or inflicting punishment as punitive law or justice
pass
pass 1 a : to issue a decision, verdict, or opinion [the Supreme Court ed on a statute] b : to be legally issued [judgment ed by default] 2 : to go from the control, ownership,...
Retribute
To pay back to give in return as payment reward or punishment to requite as to retribute one for his kindness to retribute just punishment to a criminal
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Punitive detention
Punitive detention, is intended to inflict punish-ment or a person who is found by the judicial process to have committed an offence while preventive detention
Martial law
maintenance or restoration of order in any area where martial law was in force, validate any sentence passed, punishment inflicted, forfeiture ordered or any other act done under martial law, Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga
Misadventure, excusable homicide by
So where a parent is moderately correcting a child, a master his apprentice or scholar, or an officer punishing a criminal, and happens to occasion his death, it is only misadventure, for the act of correction was
Obliqua oratio
Obliqua oratio, the manner of reporting a speech in which 'he,' not 'I,' stands for the speaker in giving his words; and hence the words 'you,' 'your,' never occur, and every sentence begins with the word...
Pardon
the accused person has been convicted by the Court has the effect of completely absolving him from all punishment or disqualification attaching to a conviction for a criminal offence. That power is essentially vested in the head
Parenthesis
Parenthesis, part of a sentence occurring in the middle thereof, and usually enclosed between marks like ( ), the omission of which part would not injure the grammatical construction of the rest of the sentence.
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...
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