• Penal Servitude Act is a stock short title which was used in the United Kingdom for legislation relating to penal servitude. The abolition of penal servitude...
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    the context. Forms of sentence involving penal labour have included involuntary servitude, penal servitude, and imprisonment with hard labour. The term...
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    Penal Servitude Act 1864 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The act amended the Penal Servitude Act 1853 and the Penal Servitude Act 1857...
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    imprisonment with penal servitude, and intended to punish. The Penal Servitude Act 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 99), long titled "An Act to substitute, in certain...
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    to penal servitude instead. Section 1 of the Penal Servitude Act 1891 makes provision for enactments which authorise a sentence of penal servitude but...
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    Offences Against the Person Act 1997 (a consolidation act) or the Criminal Law Act 1997 (which abolished penal servitude and the felony–misdemeanour distinction)...
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    Crimes Act 1871, and 54 & 55 Vict. c.69, the Penal Servitude Act 1891, which introduced the phrase "loitering with intent". The Vagrancy Act 1898 was...
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    coverage petered out at the end of the year. The panic led to the Penal Servitude Act 1857, which increased the minimum prison sentence for offences previously...
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  • 1861 Act was amended in 2004 to update the formulation. Penal servitude was abolished by the Criminal Justice Act 1948 and the Criminal Justice Act (Northern...
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    Indentured servitude is a form of labor in which a person is contracted to work without salary for a specific number of years. The contract called an...
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