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Oppress
To impose excessive burdens upon to overload hence to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty
Cistercian
abbot of Molesme For two hundred years the Cistercians followed the rule of St Benedict in all its rigor
Mitigation
mitigated abatement or diminution of anything painful harsh severe afflictive or calamitous as the mitigation of pain grief rigor severity punishment or penalty
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Lenity
of being lenient mildness of temper or disposition gentleness of treatment softness tenderness clemency opposed to severity and rigor
Hypercriticism
Excessive criticism or unjust severity or rigor of criticism zoilism
Rhadamanthine
Of or pertaining to Rhadamanthus rigorously just as a Rhadamanthine judgment
Such prisoner shall be confined in a cell apart prisoners
custody under a warrant. It is implicit in the warrant that the prisoner is neither awarded simple nor rigorous imprisonment. The purpose of the sub-s. (2) s. 366 is to make available the prisoner when the sentence
Shadow of doubt
practical application in circumstantial evidence, the test which requires the exclusion of other alternative hypothesis is far more rigorous than the test of proof beyond reasonable doubt, Shankarlal G. Dixit v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1981 SC
Modify
60] The word 'modify' means, according to Oxford Dictionary, 'to limit, restrain, to assuage, to make less serve, rigorous, or decisive to tone down'. It also means partial changes in: to alter without radical transformation', Burrakur Coal
Imprisonment
Imprisonment, 'imprisonment' shall mean imprisonment of either description as defined in the Indian Penal Code. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(27)] The restraint of a person's liberty under the custody of another. It...
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