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Transportation
and punishable by transportation for life.-4 & 5 Wm. 4, c. 67. Transportation has been superseded by penal servitude under the Penal Servitude Act, 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 99), as amended by subsequent Acts. See
Forgery
or sufficient in law (ib.). Forgery of (inter alia) any will, deed or banknote is punishable with penal servitude for life, and forgery of any security, document of title, policy, charterparty, etc., with penal servitude for not
Jus projiciendi
Jus projiciendi, means a servitude granting the right to build a projection from one's house in the open space belonging to a neighbour.
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Wounding
by s. 18 of the Offences against the (English) Person Act, 1861, a felony, punishable up to penal servitude for life; and by s. 19 of the same Act unlawfully and maliciously wounding or inflicting any grievous
Unnatural offence
against nature, either with man or beast, punishable by the Offences against the Person Act, 1861, by penal servitude for life or any term not less than ten years, but this minimum punishment was abolished by the
Sodomy
p. 1396. Sodomy, the crime against nature, punishable until 1891 by a minimum term of ten years' penal servitude; prescribed by s. 61 of the Offences against the Person Act, 1861, but the effect of the Penal
Sentence of a Court
of the Court, such few maximum sentences as previously were enjoined having been abolished by the (English) Penal Servitude Act, 1891. In passing sentence reference should not be made to the unexpired portion of any former sentence,
Previous conviction
conviction for felony,' empowered a Court to inflict transportation for life and whipping for such subsequent conviction. Penal servitude has since been substituted for transportation, and the whipping is abolished. The (English) Larceny Act, 1916 (6 &
Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871
twice convicted of crime, and for the amendment of the law with regard to licences under the Penal Servitude Acts. See also PREVENTIVE DETEN-TION; BORSTAL INSTITUTION; and PENAL SERVITUDE.
Perjury
false or does not believe to be true, he will be guilty of perjury and liable to penal servitude for not exceeding seven years, or imprisonment with or without hard labour for not exceeding two years, or
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