Viol

Bass viol

A stringed instrument of the viol family used for playing bass See 3d Bass n and Violoncello...

Viol [old law, Fr.], rape, indecent assault, Barr. on Stat. 139....

Contrabasso

The largest kind of bass viol See Violone...

Ribible

A small threestringed viol a rebec...

death penalty : death as punishment for a crime called also capital punishment see also cruel and unusual punishment Gregg v. Georgia in the Important Cases section NOTE: The U.S. Supreme Court has held that the death penalty is not inherently violative of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, provided that the method is not deemed cruel and that the punishment is not excessive in relation to the crime. A statute mandating the death penalty is unconstitutional, however. A sentencing judge is required to consider any mitigating circumstances before imposing the death penalty for a crime. ...

reciprocal dealing

reciprocal dealing : an arrangement violative of antitrust laws in which a party with greater economic power agrees to buy a product from a seller if the seller buys something in return ...

unconstitutional

unconstitutional : contrary to or failing to comply with a constitution ;esp : violative of a person's rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution [an search and seizure] un·con·sti·tu·tion·al·i·ty [-tü-shə-na-lə-tē, -tyü-] n un·con·sti·tu·tion·al·ly adv ...

Bigamy

Bigamy. By the Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 57, whomsoever, being married, shall marry any other person during the life of the former husband or wife . . . shall be guilty of a felony punishable by penal servitude for not more than seven years, or less than three, or by imprisonment for not more than two years, with or without hard labour. That section, however, does not apply to any second marriage contracted elsewhere than in England and Ireland by any other than a subject of His Majesty or to any person whose husband or wife shall have been continually absent for seven years from such person, and shall not have been known to such person to be living within that time; or even, as was held in Reg. v. Tolson, (1889) 23 QBD 168, by nine judges to five, to a person re-marrying within the seven years with a bona fide belief on reasonable grounds in the death of the first husband before the second marriage. Bigamy will have been committed though the second form of marriage was...

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