Search results for: “capital punishment”
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Cruel
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Cruel Meaning of Cruel Disposed to inflict suffering, indifferent to, or taking pleasure in another’s pain. Merciless, pitiless, hardhearted; fierce, savage; severe, rigorous; painful, distressing. […]
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Execute
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Execute Meaning of Execute To complete , as a legal instrument ; to perform what is required to give validity to, as by signing and perhaps sealing and delivering; as to execute a will or deed. To […]
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Benefit Of Clergy
Originally, the exemption from the abolition in 1827.
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Penalty
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Penalty Meaning of Penalty A punishment . Suffering in person or property as a punishment annexed by law or judicial decision to a violation of law. Also a definite sum named in a contract , not as a […]
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Guilt
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Guilt Meaning of Guilt In criminal law. That which renders criminal and liable to punishment. That disposition to violate the law which has manifested itself by some act already done. The opposite of […]
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Guilt
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Guilt Meaning of Guilt In criminal law. That which renders criminal and liable to punishment. That disposition to violate the law which has manifested itself by some act already done. The opposite of […]
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Sentence
Sentence in Law Enforcement Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of sentence. Meaning of Sentence in Spanish Description/ translation of sentence into Spanish: sentencia (especialmente en el sentido […]
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Pit
A hole dug in the earth, which was filled with water, and in which women thieves were drowned, instead of being hung. The punishment of the pit was formerly common in Scotland. …
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Faggot
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Faggot Meaning of Faggot A badge worn by persons who had recanted and abjured what was then adjudged to be heresy, as an emblem of what they had merited. Cowell. Browse You might be interested […]