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statutes
(encz) | statutes,stanovy n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
statutes
(encz) | statutes,zákony n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
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Penal statutes
(gcide) | Penal \Pe"nal\, a. [L. poenalis, fr. poena punishment: cf. F.
p['e]nal. See Pain.]
Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes
and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence: as:
(a) Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue;
the penal code.
(b) Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penal
act or offense.
(c) Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment;
as, a penal colony or settlement. "Adamantine chains and
penal fire." --Milton.
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Penal code (Law), a code of laws concerning crimes and
offenses and their punishment.
Penal laws, Penal statutes (Law), laws prohibiting
certain acts, and imposing penalties for committing them.
Penal servitude, imprisonment with hard labor, in a prison,
in lieu of transportation. [Great Brit.]
Penal suit, Penal action (Law), a suit for penalties.
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STATUTES STAPLE
(bouvier) | STATUTES STAPLE, English law. The statute of the staple, 27 Ed. HI. stat. 2,
confined the sale of all commodities to be exported to certain towns in
England, called estaple or staple, where foreigners might resort. It
authorized a security for money, commonly called statute staple, to be taken
by traders for the benefit of commerce; the mayor of the place is entitled
to take a recognizance of a debt, in proper form, which has the effect to
convey the lands of the debtor to the creditor, till out of the rents and
profits of them he may be satisfied. 2 Bl. Com. 160; Cruise, Dig. tit. 14,
s. 10; 2 Rolle's Ab. 446; Bac. Ab. Execution, B. 1 4 Inst. 238.
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