 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1288 pages
...1902, 5 583, is a proceeding in rem. 7. SAME— PUNISHMENT DEFINED. Punishment in a legal sense is any pain, penalty, suffering, or confinement inflicted...for some crime or offense committed by him or for bis omis«ion of a duty enjoined by law. [Ed. Note. — For other definitions, see Words and Phrases,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1172 pages
...583, is a proceeding in rem. 7. SAME— PUNISHMENT DEFINED. Punishment in a lejial sense is any paiu. penalty, suffering, or confinement inflicted upon...some crime or offense committed by him or for his omismon of a duty enjoined by law. [Ed. Note. — For other definitions, see Words and Phrases, vol.... | |
 | Law - 1914 - 1380 pages
...v. Wolfer, 138 N. W. 315, 318, 119 Minn. 368, 42 LRA (N. S.) 978. "Punishment" in a legal sense Is any pain, penalty, suffering, or confinement Inflicted...him or for his omission of a duty enjoined by law. State v. Pope, 60 SE 234, 23C, 79 SC 87. "Punishment" is either the act of inflicting a penalty for... | |
 | South Carolina Bar Association - Bar associations - 1919 - 248 pages
...effect of the disposition of it upon others of criminal tendencies." The definition of punishment is "any pain, penalty, suffering or confinement inflicted...him or for his omission of a duty enjoined by law." State v. Pope, 79 SC, 91. "Laws, freedom, truth and faith in God," came with our fathers from England,... | |
 | Marion Ralph Brown - Criminal anthropology - 1926 - 386 pages
...there is usually added a provision for the punishment of the offender. Black19 says that punishment is any pain, penalty, suffering or confinement inflicted...court, for some crime or offense committed by him, or his omission of a duty enjoined by law. A shorter definition of punishment would seem to the author... | |
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Punishment in a legal sense is any pain, penalty, suffering, or confinement inflicted upon a person by the authority of the law, and the judgment and sentence of a court for some crime or offense committed by him or for bis omis«ion of a duty enjoined... 