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Torture, an account of this atrocious expedient may be found in the Encyclop'dia Britannica (tit. 'Torture'). Reference may also be made to Jardine's Reading on the Use of Torture in the Criminal Law of England previously to the Commonwealth (1837), and an article by Mr. Wyatt Paine in the Law Times of January 28th, 1905, at p. 294, where attention is directed to the preamble of the Act for Pirates, 27 Hen. 8, c. 4 (repealed by the (English) Statute Law Revision Act, 1863).The infliction of intense pain to body or mind to punish; to extract a confession or information, or to obtain sadistic pleasure, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1498.Torture is strictly the infliction of gradually increasing pain for the purpose of extracting confession, or accusation, but it is also used in the secondary sense of those 'cruel and unusual punishments' which, by the Bill of Rights of 1688, 'ought not to be inflicted.' The peine forte et dure (see that title) is also a kind of torture in the prim...
Rack
Rack, an engine of torture, said not to have been used in England since 1640. See TORTURE.Means an instrument of torture on which a person was slowly stretched, formerly used to interrogate someone charged with a crime, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1265....
Cruciation
The act of torturing torture torment...
Cruelty
Cruelty, it is contemplated as a conduct of such type which endangers the living of the petitioner with the respondent. Cruelty consists of acts which are dangerous to life, limb or health. Cruelty for the purpose of the Act means where one spouse has so treated the other and manifested such feelings towards her or him as to have inflicted bodily injury , or to have caused reasonable apprehension of bodily injury, suffering or to have injured health. Cruelty may be physical or mental. Mental cruelty is the conduct of other spouse which causes mental suffering or fear to the matrimonial life of the other, Savitri Pandey v. Prem Chandra Pandey, AIR 2002 SC 591 (595): (2002) 2 SCC 73. [Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, s. 13(1)(ia)]Harassment of the woman where such harassment is with a view to coercing her or any person related to her to meet any unlawful demand for any property or valuable security would also constitute cruelty, Shobha Rani v. Modhukar Reddi, (1988) 1 SCC 105: AIR 1988 SC 121 (...
Discruciate
To torture to excruciate...
Excruciate
Excruciated tortured...
Excruciating
Torturing racking...
Excruciation
The act of inflicting agonizing pain or the state of being thus afflicted that which excruciates torture...
Extort
To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force menace duress torture or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity to wrench away from to tear away to wring from to exact as to extort contributions from the vanquished to extort confessions of guilt to extort a promise to extort payment of a debt...
Forcipation
Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers...
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