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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Grievous bodily harm (section Penal servitude)
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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