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  • Capital

    Hello Hello Legal Definition and Related Resources of Capital Meaning of Capital As an adjective, means chief , principal , or of pertaining to the death penalty , punishable with death. As a noun, in commercial parlance, means the fund or the […]

  • Punishment

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Punishment Meaning of Punishment The penalty for transgressing the law. Punishment Alternative Definition In criminal law. Some pain or penalty warranted […]

  • Capital Crime

    One which is or may be punishable by state v Watkins, 194 S.E.2d 800, 283 N.C. 17.

  • Capital Offence

    Those crimes which can cost you your head, i.e., which are punishable by death. It is not necessary to be a capital offense that a death sentence actually be imposed but only that it might have been. See also capital punishment….

  • Death Penalty

    Death penalty English Spanish Translation of Death penalty Pena de muerteFind other English to Spanish translations from the Pocket Spanish English Legal Dictionary (print and online), the English to Spanish to English dictionaries (like Death penalty) and the Word […]

  • Appeal

    Grammar This term is a verb. Etimology of Appeal (You may find appeal at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). early 14c., originally in legal sense of “to call” to a higher judge or court, from Anglo-French apeler “to call upon, accuse,” Old […]

  • Appeal

    Grammar This term is a verb. Etimology of Appeal (You may find appeal at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). early 14c., originally in legal sense of “to call” to a higher judge or court, from Anglo-French apeler “to call upon, accuse,” Old […]

  • Stay

    Stay in Maritime Law Note: There is more information on maritime/admiralty law here.The following is a definition of Stay, produced by Tetley, in the context of admiralty law: A procedure whereby a court does not dismiss an action or dismisses it conditionally on grounds of forum non […]

  • Habeas Corpus

    Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Habeas Corpus (You may find habeas corpus at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). writ requiring a person to be brought before a court, mid-15c., Latin, literally “(you should) have the person,” in phrase habeas […]

  • Gallows

    Gallows

    A scaffold; a beam laid over either one or two posts from which condemned persons are hanged. See Wachter v Quenzer, 29 N. Y. 547.

  • Gallows

    Gallows

    A scaffold; a beam laid over either one or two posts from which condemned persons are hanged. See Wachter v Quenzer, 29 N. Y. 547.

  • Misprision

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Misprision Meaning of Misprision In criminal law. A term used to signify every considerable misdemeanor which has not a certain name given to it by law. 3 Inst. 36. The concealment of a crime. Misprision […]

  • Execution

    Execution

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Execution Meaning of Execution Completion of an act under authority of the court . The enforcement or effetuation of the judgments or orders of a court. One way of giving effect to a judgment for money […]

  • Hang

    Hang in Law Enforcement Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of hang. Grammar This term is a verb. Etimology of Hang (You may find hang at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more […]

  • Abolitionist

    Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Abolitionist (You may find abolitionist at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). person who favors doing away with some law, custom, or institution, 1792, originally in reference to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, from […]