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Penal jurisdiction convention
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Penal jurisdiction conventionThe International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to Penal Jurisdiction in Matters of Collision or Other Incidents of Navigation, adopted at Brussels on May 10, 1952 and in force as of November 20, 1955.
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International
That which pertains to intercourse between nations. International law is that which regulates the intercourse between, or the relative rights of nations.
Convention
1) Contracts, civil law. A general term which comprehends all kinds of contracts, treaties, pacts, or agreements. It is defined to be the consent of two or more persons to form with each other an engagement, or to dissolve or change one which they had previously formed. 2) , legislation. This term is applied to a selecting of the delegates elected by the people for other purposes than usual legislation. It is mostly used to denote all assembly to make or amend the constitution of, a state, but it sometimes indicates an assembly of the delegates of the people to nominate officers to be supported at an election.
Rules
English law. The rules of the King's Bench and Fleet are certain limits without the actual walls of the prisons, where the prisoner, on proper security previously given to the marshal of the king's bench, or warden of the fleet, may reside; those limits are considered, for all legal and practical purposes, as merely a further extension of the prison walls.
Penal
That which may be punished; that which inflicts a punishment.
Jurisdiction
Practice. A power constitutionally conferred upon a judge or magistrate, to take cognizance of, and decide causes according to law, and to carry his sentence into execution. The tract of land or district within which a judge or magistrate has jurisdiction, is called his territory, and his power in relation to his territory is called his territorial jurisdiction.
Navigation
The act of traversing the sea, rivers or lakes, in ships or other vessels; the art of ascertaining the geographical position of a ship, and directing her course.
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Penal
That which may be punished; that which inflicts a punishment.
Penal law
One which inflicts a penalty for a violation of its enactment
Penal statutes
Those which inflict a penalty for the violation of some of their provisions.
Penalty
Contracts. A clause in an agreement, by which the obligor agrees to pay a certain-sum of money, if he shall fail to fulfil the contract contained in another clause of the same agreement.
Penance
Ecclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical punishment, inflicted by an ecclesiastical court, for some spiritual offence.
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Peeress
A noblewoman, the wife of a peer.
Peine forte et dure
English law A punishment formerly inflicted in England, on a person who, being arraigned of felony, refused to plead and put himself on his trial, and stubbornly stood mute. He was to be laid down and as much weight was to be put upon him as he could bear, and more, until he died.
Peltwool
The wool pulled off the skin or pelt of a dead ram.
Pen register
An electronic surveillance device which attaches to a phone line and which registers every number dialed from a specific telephone. This surveillance device is not as effective as wire-tapping.
Penal
That which may be punished; that which inflicts a punishment.
Penal jurisdiction convention
Penal law
One which inflicts a penalty for a violation of its enactment
Penal statutes
Those which inflict a penalty for the violation of some of their provisions.
Penalty
Contracts. A clause in an agreement, by which the obligor agrees to pay a certain-sum of money, if he shall fail to fulfil the contract contained in another clause of the same agreement.
Penance
Ecclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical punishment, inflicted by an ecclesiastical court, for some spiritual offence.
Pencil
An instrument made of plumbago, black lead, red chalk, or other suitable substance, for writing without ink.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
International
That which pertains to intercourse between nations. International law is that which regulates the intercourse between, or the relative rights of nations.
Convention
1) Contracts, civil law. A general term which comprehends all kinds of contracts, treaties, pacts, or agreements. It is defined to be the consent of two or more persons to form with each other an engagement, or to dissolve or change one which they had previously formed. 2) , legislation. This term is applied to a selecting of the delegates elected by the people for other purposes than usual legislation. It is mostly used to denote all assembly to make or amend the constitution of, a state, but it sometimes indicates an assembly of the delegates of the people to nominate officers to be supported at an election.
Rules
English law. The rules of the King's Bench and Fleet are certain limits without the actual walls of the prisons, where the prisoner, on proper security previously given to the marshal of the king's bench, or warden of the fleet, may reside; those limits are considered, for all legal and practical purposes, as merely a further extension of the prison walls.
Penal
That which may be punished; that which inflicts a punishment.
Jurisdiction
Practice. A power constitutionally conferred upon a judge or magistrate, to take cognizance of, and decide causes according to law, and to carry his sentence into execution. The tract of land or district within which a judge or magistrate has jurisdiction, is called his territory, and his power in relation to his territory is called his territorial jurisdiction.
Navigation
The act of traversing the sea, rivers or lakes, in ships or other vessels; the art of ascertaining the geographical position of a ship, and directing her course.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Penal
That which may be punished; that which inflicts a punishment.
Penal law
One which inflicts a penalty for a violation of its enactment
Penal statutes
Those which inflict a penalty for the violation of some of their provisions.
Penalty
Contracts. A clause in an agreement, by which the obligor agrees to pay a certain-sum of money, if he shall fail to fulfil the contract contained in another clause of the same agreement.
Penance
Ecclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical punishment, inflicted by an ecclesiastical court, for some spiritual offence.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Peeress
A noblewoman, the wife of a peer.
Peine forte et dure
English law A punishment formerly inflicted in England, on a person who, being arraigned of felony, refused to plead and put himself on his trial, and stubbornly stood mute. He was to be laid down and as much weight was to be put upon him as he could bear, and more, until he died.
Peltwool
The wool pulled off the skin or pelt of a dead ram.
Pen register
An electronic surveillance device which attaches to a phone line and which registers every number dialed from a specific telephone. This surveillance device is not as effective as wire-tapping.
Penal
That which may be punished; that which inflicts a punishment.
Penal jurisdiction convention
Penal law
One which inflicts a penalty for a violation of its enactment
Penal statutes
Those which inflict a penalty for the violation of some of their provisions.
Penalty
Contracts. A clause in an agreement, by which the obligor agrees to pay a certain-sum of money, if he shall fail to fulfil the contract contained in another clause of the same agreement.
Penance
Ecclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical punishment, inflicted by an ecclesiastical court, for some spiritual offence.
Pencil
An instrument made of plumbago, black lead, red chalk, or other suitable substance, for writing without ink.
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