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Punishment
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PunishmentCriminal 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.
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Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
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.
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.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Commission
1) Contracts, civil law. When one undertakes, without reward, to do something for another in respect to a thing bailed. This term is frequently used synonymously with mandate. 2) Criminal law. The act of perpetrating an offence. 3) Office. Persons authorized to act in a certain matter. 4) practice. An instrument issued by a court of, justice, or other competent tribunal, to authorize a person to take depositions, or do any other act by authority of such court, or tribunal, is called a commission. 5) Government. Letters-patent granted by the government, under the public seal, to a person appointed to an office, giving him authority to perform the duties of his office.
Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law. Each state sets out a limited series of acts (crimes) which are prohibited and punishes the commission of these acts by a fine, imprisonment or some other form of punishment. In exceptional cases, an omission to act can constitute a crime, such as failing to give assistance to a person in peril or failing to report a case of child abuse.
Misdemeanor
In most US states, a crime less serious than a felony for which the maximum sentence is usually not more than one year in a county jail. A sentence usually involves probation, jail time, a fine, or a combination of any or all of these three. Except in certain specific instances, persons convicted of a misdemeanor cannot be sentenced to prison.
Omission
An omission is the neglect to perform what the law requires.
Performance
The act of doing something; the thing done is also called a performance.
Judgment
Practice. The decision or sentence of the law, given by a court of justice or other competent tribunal, as the result of proceedings instituted therein, for the redress of an injury.
Command
1) It signifies an order; an apprentice is bound to obey the lawful command of his master; a constable may command rioters to keep the peace. 2) He who commands another to do an unlawful act, is accessary to it. 3) Command is also equivalent to deputation or voluntary substitution; as, when a master employs one to do a thing, he is said to have Commanded him to do it; and he is responsible accordingly.
Lawful
That which is not forbidden by law. Id omne licitum est, quod non est legibus prohibitum, quamobrem, quod, lege permittente, fit, poenam non meretur. To be valid a contract must be lawful.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
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Punishment of death
The deliberate killing, according to the forms of law,, of a person who has been lawfully convicted of certain crimes
Punitive damages
Damages awarded in addition to normal damages for bad faith or excessively improper acts of the defendant in contract or tort or even during a court action.
Punitive segregation (prison)
Usually a small section within the segregation unit of a higher security prison for prisoners who are confined as a sanction for violating prison rules.
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Puerility
Civil law. This commenced at the age of seven years, the end of the age of infancy, and lasted till the age of puberty, that is, in females till the accomplishment of twelve years, and in males, till the age of fourteen years fully accomplished.
Puffer
Commerce, contracts. A person employed by the owner of property which is sold at auction to bid it up, who does so accordingly, for the purpose of raising the price upon bona fide bidders.
Puisne
Since born; the younger; as, a puisne judge, is an associate judge
Pump-and-dump
Manipulating stock prices by artificially creating demand through rumor, high pressure sales tactics, or multiple large orders. The price is "pumped" upwards and then when other investors join the trend, the original investors "dump" the stock in a rapid sell-off.
Punctuation
Construction. The act or method of placing points . in a written or printed instrument.
Punishment
Punishment of death
The deliberate killing, according to the forms of law,, of a person who has been lawfully convicted of certain crimes
Punitive damages
Damages awarded in addition to normal damages for bad faith or excessively improper acts of the defendant in contract or tort or even during a court action.
Pupil
Civil law. One who is in his or her minority.
Pupillarity
Civil law. That age of a person's life which included infancy and puerility.
Pur
A corruption of the French word par, by or for. It is frequently used in old French law phrases; as, pur autre vie. It is also used in the composition of words, as purparty, purlieu, purview.
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Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
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.
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.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Commission
1) Contracts, civil law. When one undertakes, without reward, to do something for another in respect to a thing bailed. This term is frequently used synonymously with mandate. 2) Criminal law. The act of perpetrating an offence. 3) Office. Persons authorized to act in a certain matter. 4) practice. An instrument issued by a court of, justice, or other competent tribunal, to authorize a person to take depositions, or do any other act by authority of such court, or tribunal, is called a commission. 5) Government. Letters-patent granted by the government, under the public seal, to a person appointed to an office, giving him authority to perform the duties of his office.
Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law. Each state sets out a limited series of acts (crimes) which are prohibited and punishes the commission of these acts by a fine, imprisonment or some other form of punishment. In exceptional cases, an omission to act can constitute a crime, such as failing to give assistance to a person in peril or failing to report a case of child abuse.
Misdemeanor
In most US states, a crime less serious than a felony for which the maximum sentence is usually not more than one year in a county jail. A sentence usually involves probation, jail time, a fine, or a combination of any or all of these three. Except in certain specific instances, persons convicted of a misdemeanor cannot be sentenced to prison.
Omission
An omission is the neglect to perform what the law requires.
Performance
The act of doing something; the thing done is also called a performance.
Judgment
Practice. The decision or sentence of the law, given by a court of justice or other competent tribunal, as the result of proceedings instituted therein, for the redress of an injury.
Command
1) It signifies an order; an apprentice is bound to obey the lawful command of his master; a constable may command rioters to keep the peace. 2) He who commands another to do an unlawful act, is accessary to it. 3) Command is also equivalent to deputation or voluntary substitution; as, when a master employs one to do a thing, he is said to have Commanded him to do it; and he is responsible accordingly.
Lawful
That which is not forbidden by law. Id omne licitum est, quod non est legibus prohibitum, quamobrem, quod, lege permittente, fit, poenam non meretur. To be valid a contract must be lawful.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Punishment of death
The deliberate killing, according to the forms of law,, of a person who has been lawfully convicted of certain crimes
Punitive damages
Damages awarded in addition to normal damages for bad faith or excessively improper acts of the defendant in contract or tort or even during a court action.
Punitive segregation (prison)
Usually a small section within the segregation unit of a higher security prison for prisoners who are confined as a sanction for violating prison rules.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Puerility
Civil law. This commenced at the age of seven years, the end of the age of infancy, and lasted till the age of puberty, that is, in females till the accomplishment of twelve years, and in males, till the age of fourteen years fully accomplished.
Puffer
Commerce, contracts. A person employed by the owner of property which is sold at auction to bid it up, who does so accordingly, for the purpose of raising the price upon bona fide bidders.
Puisne
Since born; the younger; as, a puisne judge, is an associate judge
Pump-and-dump
Manipulating stock prices by artificially creating demand through rumor, high pressure sales tactics, or multiple large orders. The price is "pumped" upwards and then when other investors join the trend, the original investors "dump" the stock in a rapid sell-off.
Punctuation
Construction. The act or method of placing points . in a written or printed instrument.
Punishment
Punishment of death
The deliberate killing, according to the forms of law,, of a person who has been lawfully convicted of certain crimes
Punitive damages
Damages awarded in addition to normal damages for bad faith or excessively improper acts of the defendant in contract or tort or even during a court action.
Pupil
Civil law. One who is in his or her minority.
Pupillarity
Civil law. That age of a person's life which included infancy and puerility.
Pur
A corruption of the French word par, by or for. It is frequently used in old French law phrases; as, pur autre vie. It is also used in the composition of words, as purparty, purlieu, purview.
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