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Sentence of a Court

Act, would have amounted to murder. There is an express power of refraining from sen-tencing at once to punishment, and of directing the conditional release of the offender given to the Court b the Probation of Offenders

Sentence of death, Recording of

Sentence of death, Recording of. See the disused but still unrepealed Judgment of Death Act, 1823 (4 Geo. 4,

The sentence imposed

The sentence imposed, is a sentence of imprison-ment or detention and therefore the requirement for a statement showing to what

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Accumulative judgment, Sentence

Accumulative judgment, Sentence. If a person already under sentence for a crime be convicted of another offence, the court is empowered

Being under sentence of life imprisonment

Being under sentence of life imprisonment, means it would be limited to a sentence which has become final, absolute and indivisible

Capital punishment

Matched in: Term Capital punishment

Prisoner under sentence of death

Prisoner under sentence of death, the expression 'prisoner under sentence of death' can only mean the prisoner whose sentence of death

Offence not punishable with death or transporta-tion for life

Offence not punishable with death or transporta-tion for life, the plain meaning of the words 'an offence not punishable with death

determinate sentence

determinate sentence see sentence

Mitigation of punishment

Matched in: Term Mitigation of punishment

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