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Definition of Reconvict
1. Verb. Convict anew.
Definition of Reconvict
1. Verb. To convict again ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reconvict
1. convict [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: convict
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reconvict
Literary usage of Reconvict
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1869)
"Its labors soon produced a perceptible diminution in the number of reconvict!'>n.-.
Among the duties it assumed, was that of seeking work for young persons ..."
2. Journal by General Assembly, Pennsylvania General Assembly. Senate, Pennsylvania (1920)
"... and their reai-rest and reconvict ion fo:- breach of parole, and extending
the f)owers and duties of boards of prison inspectors of ..."
3. Proceedings of the ... Annual Congress of Correction of the American by American Correctional Association (1900)
"Viewed from the narrow standpoint of dollars and cents it will be found that
fifty can be effectually supervised for what it costs to reconvict one of them. ..."
4. The Modern Law of Real Property: With an Introduction for the Student, and by Louis Arthur Goodeve (1885)
"74 (tlie Fines and reconvict Act"). & I. d. For the endorsements ou deeds required
by the Fines and Recoveries Act, to be entered on the Court Rolls of ..."
5. The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy by Pennsylvania Prison Society (1846)
"A relapse which should reconvict the discharged to the custody of keepers thus
regarded, cannot be considered otherwise than as hopeless. ..."
6. A Treatise on Criminal Law by Francis Wharton (1885)
"Any one proved and negatived, if it supplied a preponderating motive, is sufficient
to °ne ^reconvict.8 § 1169. When the pretence is false, it is no defence ..."
7. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1921)
"Analytical table exhibiting conviction and reconvict ion of convicts; prison
population; average no.; no. discharged; no. remaining on Dec, ..."
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