imprisonment
41life imprisonment — noun a sentence of imprisonment until death • Hypernyms: ↑captivity, ↑imprisonment, ↑incarceration, ↑immurement * * * life imprisonment UK US noun [uncountable] a punishment in which someone is sent to prison for the rest of their life Thesaurus …
42False imprisonment — Imprison ment Im*pris on ment, n. [OE. enprisonment; F. emprisonnement.] The act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint. [1913 Webster] His sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment and hard constraint …
43False imprisonment — False False, a. [Compar. {Falser}; superl. {Falsest}.] [L. falsus, p. p. of fallere to deceive; cf. OF. faus, fals, F. faux, and AS. fals fraud. See {Fail}, {Fall}.] 1. Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit; dishnest; as, a false… …
44Alternatives to imprisonment — might be understood on several levels:One way to sketch the range of alternatives people have developed for responding to violence is to divide it by shorter term and longer term strategies.Shorter term strategies include restorative justice… …
45Dead time (imprisonment) — Dead time is time spent institutionalized that does not count as credit toward the defendant s sentence. An example would be time spent confined in a mental hospital while the defendant is being restored to competency to stand trial. Halfway… …
46civil imprisonment — in the Scots law of diligence or legal enforcement, a remedy now considerably restricted, by which the debtor was placed in prison until the debt was discharged. It is still competent for failure to pay fines for contempt of court and for wilful… …
47life imprisonment — ► NOUN ▪ a long term of imprisonment (rarely the whole of a person s life), which (in the UK) is now the only sentence for murder and the maximum for any crime …
48false imprisonment — noun Date: 14th century imprisonment of a person contrary to law …
49conditionally release from imprisonment — index parole Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
50court order of imprisonment — index mittimus Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
