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As a common law offence, the punishment can carry anything up to a life sentence.
Keep the defence tight, and when on offence, I want to see quick feet and fast passing.
The proposal would also make it an offence to hit a child with an instrument, such as a belt or a cane.
If approved it would make begging a recordable offence and convicted beggars would get a criminal record.
Police officers will be able to identify repeat offenders and aggressive beggars more easily as begging becomes a recordable offence.
The bill also introduces a new power to obtain search warrants when an offence of knowingly possessing objectionable material is suspected.
The new bill would make it an offence to serve alcohol to people who are drunk.
The rule making it an offence for a reinsman to bet on a horse he was driving was introduced in April last year.
From the start strict rules were laid down for its romantic novels, toning down passion to avoid offence.
Will the state refuse to relicense a vehicle owned by someone with a prior drunken driving offence?
Having witnessed many altercations in dressing rooms I don't think that was a sackable offence.
Referee Ted Coutts added to Gala's misery when he yellow-carded Tim Miskelly for an innocuous looking offence at a ruck.
The landlord and landlady of The Craven justly feel they are equally the victims concerning an alleged offence they know nothing about.
It will also be an offence for landowners to permit their land to be used for hunting.
It is not an offence for anyone to hold a view contrary to your own, however politically correct you may consider yourselves to be.
Wyatt also wants to introduce a specific offence for launching denial of service attacks, removing a potential grey area in existing laws.
The relative lightness of this sentence is explained as the judge observed the motivation for his offence.
And it will become an offence to drop litter anywhere, not just on public land as has been the case until now.
At the time of his arrest on the drugs offence, he had left home after arguing with his mother, a lone parent.
Further, his detention was unlawful, not being founded upon reasonable suspicion of the commission by the Claimant of an arrestable offence.
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Dove even confessed to a feeling of guiltiness, yet could remember no offence.
I had, I knew, committed a very serious criminal offence in posing as a medical man and giving that death certificate.
To try to insert an alien child in a deme was a civil, in a was a religious offence.
It appears that sapor took offence at the tone of the communication, which was not sufficiently humble to please him.
Indeed, if the object of boxing be to use all means of offence and defence, the savate is indispensable.
Until now the enormity of his offence had not penetrated her understanding.
Yet has he committed no offence that condemns him either to scourging or the prison.
As in the English pillory, the name of the man and the nature of his offence are inscribed on the cangue.
I urged him with the enormousness of the offence, but I made no impression.
Brown left him then, with a nod that conveyed remission of cardinal sin, and a warning not to repeat the offence.
The famous telegram put forward by France as the gravamen, or chief offence, was not communicated to the Chamber.
See thou fall not hastily into the like offence, else shalt thou smart from Childermas to All-hallowtide.
His offence is extraditable by a law of the last century which has never been repealed.
Since the treaty our government has refused to extradite where the offence charged is not included in the treaty.
In this country it has been made a finable offence to permit the Canada thistle to perfect its seeds.
What he was doing was flagrantly unlawful unless he charged her with some offence.
You will think you have made no offence, if the Duke avouch the justice of your dealing?
Few things gave greater offence in that day to the Faculty, than Dr. gambado's system of practice.
She was totally ignorant of the bailable nature of her offence, and therefore expected the utmost that can be imagined.
It was impossible to take offence at the mock seriousness of Bobby's harangue.
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