Servitude - Law Dictionary Search Results
Tickets of leave
convicts for good conduct, but recallable upon subsequent misconduct. See the Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871, and Penal Servitude Acts of 1864 and 1891.
Riot Act
by a justice of the peace, sheriff, under sheriff, or may or, they are felons, punishable by penal servitude for life, originally by death
Tichborne case
Doughty Tichborne, who had been drowned at sea in 1854, was sentenced in 1873 to fourteen years' penal servitude-being seven years (the maximum sentence for perjury) for each of two perjuries. See Best on Evidence, 10th Edn.,
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Threats
accuse of certain serious crimes, and BLACKMAIL. The sending of letters threatening to murder is punishable by penal servitude not exceeding ten years (Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 16). The sending of letters threatening to
Slavery
fortune and liberty of another 2. The practice of keeping individuals in such a state of bondage or servitude, Black's Law Diction-ary, 7th Edn., p. 1393. The system of colonial slavery ws abolished by 3 & 4
Sessions of the peace
for any felony which, when committed by a person not previously convicted of felony, is punishable by penal servitude for life, or for: (1) Misprision of treason. (2) Offences against the king's title, or government, etc. (3)
Sert
Sert, means a person in a condition of feudal servitude, bound to labour at the will of a lord, a villain, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1371.
Sacrilege
being therein and committing any felony therein, and breaking out of the same, is felony punishable by penal servitude or imprisonment. The offence was for a long time capital, the last execution having taken place in 1819.
Robbery
23 and 37, and the Garrotters Act, 1863, by which robbery with violence is felony punishable by penal servitude and whipping, if the offender be a male.
Liberty
and sundry, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, Vol. 2, p. 1459. It is the right not only or freedom from servitude, imprisonment or restraint, but the right of one to use his faculties in all lawful ways, to live
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