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(Scotland, law) A decision or decree made by a court in favour of the defendant in a given action; dismissal.
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(law) The person charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.
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To send a child to be adopted by family of a different culture and ethnicity.
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Alternative form of avowry [The action of an advowee, advocate or patron.]
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(obsolete) One who animadverts; a censurer or chastiser.
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One who makes an appeal.
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(law) The formal charging of a defendant with an offense.
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(now historical) A formal sentence of the King or Parliament of France; hence, a decree, a ruling.
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(Scotland, law) The aiding or abetting in the perpetration of a crime.
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(law, rare) The state a prisoner enters once a death sentence (usually for treason) had been issued; the state of being stripped of all civil rights.
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(obsolete) A juror guilty of attaint
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(obsolete, law) The giving of a false verdict by a jury; the conviction of such a jury, and the reversal of the verdict.
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(historical) A petitioner; someone who seeks some type of favour from another, usually from a superior.
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A letter in which the writer asks for money.
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(obsolete) A vow; a promise.
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(transitive) To will (to); bequeath by a will or testament.
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(law) A legislative determination imposing punishment without trial.
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A person who, although present at some event, does not take part in it; an observer or spectator.
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A person who capitulates.
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A record kept by the police, notionally on a sheet of paper, stating the criminal offence(s) which a suspect is charged with (accused of committing).
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(Australia) A criminal sentence determined by the circle sentencing process.
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(India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, criminal law) a criminal offence, usually serious in nature, that the offender may be arrested without warrant.
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(law) Such work done as alternative for a criminal penalty.
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(law, Canada) probation.
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Obsolete form of cognizor. [(law) One who acknowledged the right of the plaintiff or cognizee in a fine; the defendant.]
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(law) A party held in contempt of court.
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(law, countable) A court order which, in the context of a court trial or hearing, declares a person or organization to have disobeyed or been disrespectful of the court's authority.
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(law) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
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The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements.
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(law) The evidence that a crime has occurred.
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(obsolete) One who is, or who has been, in the house of correction.
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(US, Canada, law) Relating to the punishment, treatment, or supervision of persons who have been convicted of a crime
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Instituted activity under the legal regime of criminal procedure directed at someone suspect of an offence under criminal law, in order to assess his culpability.
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(law, historical) In the names of legal actions, pleas, writs, etc.: final, last; dernier.
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A unit of fine payment based on the offender's daily personal income. The number of day fines depends on the gravity of offence.
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(law) A decree that someone be put to death as a punishment for a crime; a sentence of execution.
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(transitive, law) To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
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Obsolete form of defender. [Someone who defends people or property.]
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An accuser; an informer.
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(law, informal) A deposition.
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(Scotland, law) The proceedings under a criminal libel.
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A participant in a dispute.
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(Scotland, law) An indictment; a charge.
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(law) An objection, on legal grounds; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts or reserves something before the right is transferred.
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(obsolete, Britain, law) A writ in proceedings before outlawry.
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(UK) A notice served on an offender by an authorised person, which is usually for committing a minor offence. It requires the offender to pay a fixed fine within a certain period of time, or appeal against it, possibly in court.
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(law) A verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime.
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(law, Britain, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong) An offence which can only be tried on an indictment after a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is a prima facie case to answer or by a grand jury, in contrast to a summary offence.
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(rare) The process or act of making an oath.
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(canon law, postpositive) Of a penalty, coming into force as soon as a law is broken, by force of the law itself (such as excommunication for various specified offences).
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To proceed against (goods, a ship, etc.) by filing a libel claim.
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A party which has made a libel (hostile handbill) against a libelant
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(law) A sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the defendant's life.
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(rare) A litigator who conducts an excessive number of lawsuits.
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A person who engages in litigation, especially of a vexatious kind.
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Relating to, or inclined towards litigation
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Property of being litigious, of tending to resort to legal means such as lawsuits.
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(law) A criminal sentence of a predetermined minimum period of time which a judge is required by statute to impose upon a conviction for a crime.
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The act or practice of begging; beggary.
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(Scottish law) A delay in bringing a claim.
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(US, law) A clause in a will that imposes a penalty of forfeiture against any beneficiary who challenges the will.
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The taking of an oath, or vow.
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Relating to objuration.
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Obsolete form of orison. [A prayer.]
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The portion of some criminal trials that occurs after a guilty verdict has been rendered, in which the punishment for the crime is decided.
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One who commits perjury.
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(Scotland, law) A ground of objection that applies to an individual and prevents them from doing something which, except for their conduct or situation, they would be allowed to do.
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One who or that which plights, engages, or pledges.
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(in extended use) Any of a number of criminal offences incurring similar penalties to the original offence of praemunire.
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(obsolete, rare) One who intends or purposes.
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(law) A type of sentence where convicted criminals are allowed to continue living in the community but will automatically be sent to jail if they violate certain conditions
adj
Promoting competition in the marketplace.
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a formal solemn objection or other declaration
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Obsolete spelling of punish [(transitive) To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action.]
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Formal statements made to an authority to express discontent.
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(law) To issue a new sentence for certain crimes
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(law) A common law rule that establishes three age brackets for determining a juvenile's culpability for a tort or a crime.
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(US, law) A United States law, codified at 18 USC §3553(f), authorizing a judge to disregard mandatory minimum sentences for some criminals with few or no prior offenses.
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someone or something who sanctions
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Abbreviation of sentencing. [The act of pronouncing a judicial sentence on someone convicted of a crime.]
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A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
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(linguistics) The property of being a sentence.
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Range of allowed punishments for a given crime (This entry is a translation hub.).
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(law) In the law of wills, the death of two persons, each of whom would inherit the estate of the other if deemed to have survived the other, where such deaths occur within a time period set by statute (typically 120 hours), because of which the law treats each person as if they had died before the other in determining the distribution of estates.
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(law) A legal doctrine that prevents a murderer from realizing any inheritance from their victim, in effect in most jurisdictions.
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(US, law) an inchoate offense that consists of a person offering money or inducing another to commit a crime with the specific intent that the person solicited commit the crime
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Any law designed to prevent criminals from profiting from the publicity around their crimes, as for example allowing the state to seize profits and distribute them to victims.
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Information which pertains to the affairs of a country and access to which is restricted by the government.
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A political protest in which participants do not attend their place of work.
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(obsolete, transitive) To court.
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Alternative form of survivoress [A woman or girl who survives.]
adj
(law) suspended sentence
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(law) A sentence which the offender serves in probation unless he/she commits another crime during the period the sentence is in force.
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(Scotland, law) A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.
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The administration of an oath
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Obsolete form of sire. [A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.]
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(US, law) A criminal sentencing structure under which the third conviction results in a mandatory life sentence.
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(law) Time spent in remand awaiting trial, when credited after a guilty verdict usually by subtracting from the sentence.
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(business) A formula, practice, process, design, instrument, pattern, or compilation of information used by a business to obtain an advantage over competitors within the same industry or profession, which kept secret from those competitors or the public.
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(law, India and historically in the British Isles) Someone giving full disclosure about a crime in return for pardon.
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A solemn promise to perform some act, or behave in a specified manner, especially a promise to live and act in accordance with the rules of a religious order.
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Relating to a prison sentence lasting for the rest of the prisoner's life.
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(law) A legal action brought to dispute the validity of a will.
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By analogy an overly zealous investigator or accuser.
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(law, Scotland) A clause in a deed of entail forbidding the heir to sell the estate, contract debt, etc.
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