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• SENTENCE (Lat. sententia, a way of thinking, opinion, judgment; vote, sentire, to feel, think)

SENTENCE (See also:

• LAT

Lat. sententia, a way of thinking, See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion, See also:

• JUDGMENT

judgment; See also:

• VOTE

vote, sentire, to feel, think)  , a word of which the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal meanings now are: (a) in See also:

• GRAMMAR (from Lat. grammatica, sc. ars; Gr. ypaµ)

grammar, a thought expressed in words in See also:

• COMPLETE

complete grammatical See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form and composed of subject and predicate, and (b) in See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, a judicial decision . In law, the See also:

• TERM

term signifies either (1) a See also:

• JUDGMENT

judgment of a See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court of criminal See also:

• JURISDICTION
• JURISDICTION, CRIMINAL LAW, DIVORCE

jurisdiction imposing a See also:

• PUNISHMENT (from Lat. punire, to punish, from poena, punishment, Gr. 7rocvil)

punishment such as a See also:

• FINE

fine or imprisonment, or (2) a See also:

• DECREE (from the past participle, decretus, of Lat. decernere)

decree of certain competent courts, as ecclesiastical and See also:

• ADMIRALTY, HIGH COURT OF

admiralty courts . In sense (I) a See also:

• SENTENCE (Lat. sententia, a way of thinking, opinion, judgment; vote, sentire, to feel, think)

sentence may be either definite or final, i.e. one giving finality to the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case, or interlocutory, determining some point in the progress of the case (see, however, JUDGMENT) . The sentences inflicted by the courts of various countries vary according to the gravity of the offence (see CRIMINAL LAW; also See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT; and, for the " indeterminate " sentence, See also:

• RECIDIVISM (from Fr. recidiver, to relapse and fall again into the same fault, or repeat the same offence as one committed before)

RECIDIVISM) . Concurrent sentences are those which run from the same date in respect of convictions on various indictments . A cumulative sentence is the sum See also:

• TOTAL

total of consecutive sentences passed in respect of each distinct offence of which an accused See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person has been found guilty on several See also:

• COUNTS

counts of an See also:

• INDICTMENT (from Anglo-Fr. enditernent, enditer, to charge; Lat. in, against, dictare, declare)

indictment . A sentence, in the case of trials before a court of See also:

• ASSIZE

assize, commences to run from the first See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day of the sitting of the court, but in that of courts of See also:

• QUARTER (through Fr. from Lat. quartarius, fourth part)

quarter sessions from the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time the sentence is pronounced .