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Definition of Imprisonments
1. imprisonment [n] - See also: imprisonment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imprisonments
Literary usage of Imprisonments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by George Woodyatt Hastings (1858)
"Short imprisonments, as connected with the Criminal Justice Act (18 d 19 Viet.
c. 126). By the Rev. J. FIELD, Chaplain of Reading Gaol. ..."
2. A Summary of the Law of Torts, Or, Wrongs Independent of Contract by Arthur Underhill, Hubert Stuart Moore (1900)
"The rules which apply to imprisonments by private persons, and those which apply
to imprisonments by judges and other magistrates, are necessarily different ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1870)
"... imprisonments, searches, seizures, proceed- ¡т.^.ч. and acts, had been done
under the previous 1 1 [ ress authority and direction of the General ..."
4. The Puritan Republic of the Massachusetts Bay in New England by Daniel Wait Howe (1899)
"There were other persecutions of the Baptists, but, notwithstanding the fines,
imprisonments and banishments, they persisted in maintaining their faith. ..."
5. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1896)
"... are repeatedly arrested and convicted of vagrancy, or intoxication, or disorderly
conduct, and to whom repeated imprisonments for such offenses afford ..."
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