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Penance
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PenanceEcclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical punishment, inflicted by an ecclesiastical court, for some spiritual offence.
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Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Punishment
Criminal law. Some pain or penalty warranted by law, inflicted on a person, for the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, or for the omission of the performance of an act required by law, by the judgment and command of some lawful court.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Offence
Crimes. The doing that which a penal law forbids to be done, or omitting to do what it commands; in this sense it is nearly synonymous with crime. In a more confined sense, it may be considered as having the same meaning with misdemeanor, but it differs from it in this, that it is not indictable, but punishable summarily by the forfeiture of a penalty.
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Penal
That which may be punished; that which inflicts a punishment.
Penal jurisdiction convention
The 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.
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.
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Penal
That which may be punished; that which inflicts a punishment.
Penal jurisdiction convention
The 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.
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
Pencil
An instrument made of plumbago, black lead, red chalk, or other suitable substance, for writing without ink.
Pendente lite
Pending the continuance of an action, while litigation continues.
Pendentes
Civil law. The fruits of the earth not yet separated from the ground; the fruits hanging by the roots.
Penetration
Crimes. The act of inserting the penis into the female organs of generation.
Penitentiary
A prison for the punishment of convicts.
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Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Punishment
Criminal law. Some pain or penalty warranted by law, inflicted on a person, for the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, or for the omission of the performance of an act required by law, by the judgment and command of some lawful court.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Offence
Crimes. The doing that which a penal law forbids to be done, or omitting to do what it commands; in this sense it is nearly synonymous with crime. In a more confined sense, it may be considered as having the same meaning with misdemeanor, but it differs from it in this, that it is not indictable, but punishable summarily by the forfeiture of a penalty.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Penal
That which may be punished; that which inflicts a punishment.
Penal jurisdiction convention
The 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.
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.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Penal
That which may be punished; that which inflicts a punishment.
Penal jurisdiction convention
The 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.
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
Pencil
An instrument made of plumbago, black lead, red chalk, or other suitable substance, for writing without ink.
Pendente lite
Pending the continuance of an action, while litigation continues.
Pendentes
Civil law. The fruits of the earth not yet separated from the ground; the fruits hanging by the roots.
Penetration
Crimes. The act of inserting the penis into the female organs of generation.
Penitentiary
A prison for the punishment of convicts.
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