Tag: Punishments
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Villenous Judgment
English Law: Villenous Judgment in the Past In the English law it was a judgment given by the common law in attaint or in cases of conspiracy. Developments Its effects were to make the object of it lose his liberam legem and become infamous. He forfeited his goods and chattels and his lands […]
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Death Penalty
The death penalty: UK Legal History By 1900, murder was the only civilian crime (with few and rare exceptions) that incurred the mandatory death sentence. The only exception was on grounds of diminished responsibility through mental illness. The death sentence was finally abolished with the […]
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Death Penalty
The death penalty: UK Legal History By 1900, murder was the only civilian crime (with few and rare exceptions) that incurred the mandatory death sentence. The only exception was on grounds of diminished responsibility through mental illness. The death sentence was finally abolished with the […]