Category: P

Liable to punishment, whether absolutely or in the exercise of a ju- dicial discretion.

Fr. By or for. Used both as a separable particle, and iu the composition of such words as “purparty,” “purlieu.”

In criminal law, 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 his omission of a duty enjoined by law. See Cummings v. Missouri, 4 Wall. 320, 18 L. Ed. 356; Featherstone v. People, 194 111. 325, 02 N. E. 084; Ex parte Howe, 20 Or. 181, 37 Pac. 530; State v. Grant, 79 Mo. 129, 49 Am. Rep. 218.

The word “purchase” is used in law in contradistinction to “descent,” and means any other mode of acquiring real property than by the common course of in- heritance. But it is also much used in its more restricted vernacular sense, (that of buying for a sum of money,) especially in modern law literature; and this is universally its application to the case of chattels. See Stamm v. Bostwick, 122 N. T. 48, 25 N. E. 233, 9 L. R. A. 597; Hall v. Hall, 81 N. Y. 134; Berger v. United States Steel Corp.. 03 N. J. Eq. 809, 53 Atl. 08; Falley v. Gribling, 128 Ind. 110, 20 N. E. 794; Chambers v. St. Louis, 29 Mo. 574.

term that means the death penalty.

Method of accounting used for aquisition of goods. This acquisition method is where up to 10% of the purchasing price is paid in cash, stock, debt or shares. The criteria for the pooling of interest is not met.

1. Torture and degrading conduct towards a prisoner. 2. A penalty that is out of all proportion to the offense committed.

The agreement by which a buyer agrees to sell an item to a purchaser. The buyer needs to agree to a set of conditions in order to buy the product.

the term that is used to describe the punishment for a preson who has committed the same crime on many occassions and is said to be a habitual criminal.

Relating to punishment; having the character of punishment or penalty ; inflicting punishment or a penalty.