Penalty
n.In a criminal trial after the crime is proved a person maybe ordered by the judge to pay monetary fine or his property can be forfeitted.The accused can also be put behind bars for a period of time.
Penalty: An amount of money you receive because something wasn't done correctly in your claim.
Petition for reconsideration: A legal process to appeal a decision issued by a judge.
Death Penalty The sentence of execution for murder and some other capital crimes. (See also: capital punishment)
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n. 1) in criminal law, a money fine or forfeiture of property ordered by the judge after conviction for a crime. 2) an amount agreed in advance if payment or performance is not made on time, ...
PENALTY PHASE: The second part of a bifurcated trial, in which the jury hears evidence and then votes on what penalty or damages to impose.
PENSION PLAN: An employer's program for providing retirement income to eligible employees.
Penalty Assessment - Procedure in which traffic offender is allowed to mail in a fine (plead guilty by mail). Points may be assessed against the person's driving record for penalty assessment offenses.
penalty assessment An extra assessment imposed on fines, penalties, bail, and forfeitures collected by the courts.
penalty: Punishment for breaking a law.
penalty assessment: An amount of money added to a fine.
PENALTY, contr. 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.
Penalty runs
For extreme misconduct by one team, the umpire may award five penalty runs to the other team.
Death penalty - Also known as capital punishment, this is the most severe form of corporal punishment as it is requires law enforcement officers to kill the offender.
Penalty points imposed by the Department of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles after conviction in traffic court.
Polling the jury
The act, after a jury verdict has been announced, of asking jurors individually whether they agree with the verdict.
A penalty or punishment imposed on someone found guilty of an offence.
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'A penalty offends the proscription against cruel and unusual punishment when it is 'so disproportionate to the crime for which it is inflicted that it shocks the conscience and offends fundamental notions of human dignity.' (In re Lynch (1972) 8 Cal.
No penalty is prescribed, within the relevant religious Islamic religious-legal texts, for ta'azir crimes. That is left to the judge in keeping with the rehabilitative or corrective goal of sentencing in a ta'azir conviction.
Death penalty
Definition - Noun
: death as punishment for a crime
see also cruel and unusual punishment Gregg v. Georgia in the Important Cases section
The U.S.
prepayment penalty mortgage (ppm) a type of mortgage that requires the borrower to pay a penalty for prepayment, partial payment of principal or for repaying the entire loan within a certain time period. A partial payment is generally ...
SentenceThe penalty imposed on the finding of guilt. Concurrent Sentence Two or more terms of imprisonment served simultaneously.
s sanctionA penalty to enforce an order.
sealingThe closure of courts records to inspection, except to the parties.
slanderslander is defaming another orally. Libel is writing it down.
sanction: a penalty or punishment provided as a means of enforcing obedience to a law, rule or code; also, an authorization
satisfaction: Discharge of a legal obligation, as in a "Satisfaction of Judgment." ...
declaration under penalty of perjury
A signed statement, sworn to be true by the signer, that will make the signer guilty of the crime of perjury if the statement is shown to be materially false -- that is, ...
Certificate under penalty of perjury - A written statement, certified by the maker as being under penalty of perjury. In many circumstances, it may be used in lieu of an affidavit.
Late Charge
A penalty for failure to pay an installment on time.
Legal Description
A description by which property can be definitely located by reference to surveys or recorded maps. Sometimes referred to simply as the legal.
A crime carrying a penalty of more than a year in prison.
File
To place a paper in the official custody of the clerk of court to enter into the files or records of a case.
Sentences: The penalty imposed by a judge after the defendant is convicted of a crime. Sentences can be: Concurrent - Multiple sentences will be served at the same time (i.e.
declaration under penalty of perjury - A statement, the truth of which is sworn to by the signer, where the signer would be guilty of the crime of perjury if the statement were shown to be false.
Point information - Penalty points imposed by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles after conviction in traffic court.
Two important administrative amendments were made by the act of 1887: (1) a section similar to that in the Factory and Mines Acts was added, empowering the employer to exempt himself from penalty for contravention of the acts on proof that any other ...
for his trustworthiness to be relevant to the outcome of a case in court, however, the affiant must be sworn (i.e., give his solemn oath to tell the truth) or affirmed (pledge that he is aware the punishment for falsehood is the court's penalty for ...
Subpoena: (Latin: under penalty) Court order requiring a witness to attend at a certain time and place or suffer a penalty.
These questions must be answered in writing under oath or under penalty of perjury within a specified time (such as 30 days).
Coming from the Latin for "under penalty" (sub poena), a subpoena is a court process used to cause a witness to appear and give testimony, commanding him or her to appear before the court or magistrate therein named, at a time therein mentioned, ...
=under penalty], in law, an order to a witness to appear before a court. A subpoena ad testificandum [Lat.
misdemeanor - Offenses lower than felonies and generally those punishable by fine, penalty, forfeiture or imprisonment otherwise that in penitentiary.
mistrial - An erroneous, invalid, or nugatory trial.
a document in which an applicant for patent declares, under penalty of fine or imprisonment, or both (18 USC 1001), that (1) he or she is the original or sole inventor, (2) shall state of what country he or she is a citizen, ...
Circumstances that increase the seriousness or outrageousness of a given crime, which will increase the wrongdoer's penalty or punishment.
Also known as the death penalty, capital punishment has been banned in many coutries.
A written statement that is signed under the penalty of perjury and sworn to before a person who is officially permitted by law to administer an oath, like a notary public.
Affirm
When an appellate court says that the lower court's decision was right.
Declaration: A declaration is a written statement submitted to a court in which the writer swears "under penalty of perjury" that the contents are true, meaning that the writer acknowledges that if he or she is lying, ...
CAPITAL OFFENSE: Offense that has death as a penalty.
CAPTION : The caption of a pleading, or other papers connected with a case in court, is the heading which shows the names of the parties, name of the court, number of the case, etc.
DAMAGES ON BILLS OF EXCHANGE
contracts. A penalty affixed by law to the non-payment of a bill of exchange when it is not paid at maturity, which the parties to it are obliged... more ...
BIFURCATION: Splitting a trial into two parts: a liability phase and a penalty phase. In some cases, a new jury may be empanelled to deliberate for the penalty phase.
Fine: To impose a monetary penalty upon someone convicted of an offense.
Firm: A partnership or company that is unincorporated; a business concern.
Subpoena:
Latin: an order of a court which requires a person to be present at a certain time and place or suffer a penalty (subpoena means, literally, "under penalty").
Affirmation
A declaration acknowledging that the person will tell the truth under penalty of perjury. Affirmations may be made by individuals who object to taking an oath on religious grounds.
fine - A sum of money paid as part of a penalty of conviction for a particular criminal offense.
Once the worker is legally allowed to receive pension distributions, QDRO's require the plan administrator to divide the pension, without penalty.
Mitigation - A reduction, abatement, or diminution of a penalty or punishment imposed by law.
Declaration
A written statement that the signer swears under penalty of perjury is true.
Judges sit in rotating panels of three, and they hear appeals from the trial courts in all civil cases and all criminal cases except death penalty cases, and also hear appeals from certain state administrative agencies.
A criminal case, by contrast, is always brought by a governmental entity (through a federal or local prosecutor) against a defendant for a violation of a criminal statute where the penalty may be a fine or imprisonment or both.
The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies. Infraction - an offense punishable by a fine or other penalty other ...
At Will Employment: A type of employment relationship in which there is no contractual agreement and either party may end the employment relationship at any time, for any reason or for no reason at all, without incurring a penalty.
Many pollution prevention initiatives require an audit to determine where wastes may be reduced or eliminated or energy conserved. Many supplemental environmental projects that offset a penalty use audits to identify ways to reduce the harmful ...
Prisoners sentenced to death also file habeas petitions challenging the constitutionality of the state death penalty law.
litem A guardian appointed to assist an infant or other mentally incapable defendant or plaintiff, or any such incapacitated person that may be a party in a legal action. Guillotine A device developed in France to inflict the death penalty ...
TOP Guillotine : A device developed in France to inflict the death penalty through decapitation by the dropping of a weighted and sharp metal blade onto the restrained neck of a convict. Site designed and maintained by Carol Gann of The Art Core ...
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