Punishable - Law Dictionary Search Results
Penal statute
statute or penal law is a law that defines an offence and prescribes its corresponding fine, penalty or punishment, Karnataka Rare Earth v. Senior Geologist, (2004) 2 SCC 783 (791). Those which impose penalties or punishments for
Scourge
A lash a strap or cord especially a lash used to inflict pain or punishment an instrument of punishment or discipline a whip
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'
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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...
Jury of matrons
execution is stayed until the birth of the child, after which, as a rule, the Crown commutes the punishment.
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,
Rule of lenity
judicial doctrine holding that a court, in construing an ambiguous criminal statute that set out multiple or inconsistent punishments, should resolve the ambiguity in favour of the more lenient punishment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1332.
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...
Tautology
Tautology, describing the same thing twice in one sentence in equivalent terms; a fault in rhetoric. It differs from repetition or iteration, which is repeating the same sentence in the same or equivalent terms: the latter...
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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