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Deprivation

law, after two former convictions for the same offence; or, secondly, in pursuance of divers penal statutes, which declare the benefice

Accumulative judgment, Sentence

of another offence, the court is empowered to pass a second sentence, to commence after the expiration of the first.

Third-night-awn-hinde

for-man-night, or uncuth (unknown), he was reckoned a stranger; the second night, twa-night, a guest; and the third night, an agen-hinde, … his host was answerable for him if he committed any offence. The first night, for-man-night, or uncuth (unknown), he was reckoned

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Bigamy

hard labour. That section, however, does not apply to any second marriage contracted elsewhere than in England and Ireland by any … Bigamy. By the Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 57, whomsoever, being married,

Vagrants

do, whereby it becomes chargeable to any parish or union. Secondly. Rogues and Vagabonds.-The following are, by the Vagrancy Act, 1824, … the sessions, viz.: (1) Every person committing any of the offences hereinbefore mentioned, after having been con-victed as an idle and

Magna Carta

renewal of this oppressive system at the restoration of the second Charles, that the provision annihilating these feudal tenures, contained in … but by their peers, and after the manner of their offence. No man of the church shall be amerced after the

Institutions

The first book of the Institutes has twenty-six titles, the second twenty-five, the third thirty, and the fourth eighteen; in all, … natural and partly civil, as a contract, quasi-contract, crime or offence. Contracts made by words are called Stipulations, the general principles

Trespass

is now archaic even in popular speech, (2) In a second and narrower signification - its true legal sense - the … of Torts, 17th Edn., 1977). Trespass, signifies any transgression or offence against the law of nature, of society or the country

Autrefois acquit

convicted on it; and if he be thus indicted a second time, he may plead autrefois acquit, which will be a … in criminal cases; when a person is indicted for an offence and acquitted, he cannot be afterwards indicted for the same

Intoxicating liquor

one from the Inland Revenue, the first discretionary, and the second obtainable as of right, on production of the justices' licence. … with or if the licence holder is convicted of any offence [s. 14(4)] The confirming authority, however, i.e., in counties quarter

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