Imprisonment
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
imprisonment · confinement · custody · imprisonments · jail · prison · stocks
in the texts
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
The practice of confining an accused person before trial, discussed as a punishment in itself requiring strict limits.
Imprisonments, I say, being only the means of securing the person of the accused, until he be tried, condemned or acquitted, ought not only to be of short duration, but attended with as little severity as possible.
because imprisonment is rather a punishment, than a means of securing the person of the accused;
The law should, therefore, determine the crime, the presumption, and the evidence sufficient to subject the accused to imprisonment and examination.
Against Timocrates
Confinement used as a legal penalty, additional sanction, or custodial measure for offenders and debtors.
The debtor who has given sureties, he goes on, shall be released from the penalty of imprisonment on payment to the State of the money in respect of which he gave sureties.
It is further enacted that if hereafter the additional penalty of imprisonment shall have been imposed, the prisoner may be released on producing sureties for payment of his fine.
moved by Timocrates, that if the additional penalty of imprisonment has been or shall hereafter be inflicted in pursuance of any law or decree upon any person in debt to the treasury, it shall be competent for him or for any person on his behalf to nominate as sureties for the debt—