Corporal punishment Sentence Examples

It was only as late as 1904, however, that the landed proprietors were forbidden by law to inflict corporal punishment upon the peasants.

All blasphemies against God, as denying His being, or providence, all contumelious reproaches of Jesus Christ, all profane scoffing at the Holy Scriptures, or exposing any part thereof to contempt or ridicule, are punishable by the temporal courts with fine, imprisonment and also infamous corporal punishment.

The slaves were bound to work for their masters during this period for three-fourths of the day, and were to be liable to corporal punishment if they did not give the due amount of labour.

They can impose fines for small offences not worth sending bef ore the inspector, and, in cases of high misdemeanour, have the power of inflicting corporal punishment.

The jurisdiction was something jointly shared with the temporal power in case corporal punishment were involved.

Legislative divorces are forbidden by the constitution, and a statute of 1901 subjects wife-beaters to corporal punishment.

He was an ardent social reformer; he secured the abolition of corporal punishment in the schools, the suppression of lotteries, of houses of ill-fame and of obscene literature; he instituted reforms in the hospitals, and insisted on the honours of public burial for the poor.

In addition to the franchise, immunity from corporal punishment (even in the field) was promised the Latins.

One was the strict limitation of corporal punishment to offences of mutiny and gross personal violence to officers, where previously it might be inflicted for many forms of misconduct, and it can only now be adjudged under great restrictions.

He began by repealing Catherine's law which exempted the free classes of the population of Russia from corporal punishment and mutilation.

He's all for bringing back corporal punishment in schools too.

Hanging an inmate and injecting them leads to never ending corporal punishment.

The punishment was death in various forms, burning alive, mutilation, torture or corporal punishment.

In March 1906 a motion censuring Lord Milner for an infraction of the Chinese labour ordinance, in not forbidding light corporal punishment of coolies for minor offences in lieu of imprisonment, was moved by a Radical member of the House of Commons.

In other countries, children are commonly treated in a harsh, strict manner, using shame or corporal punishment for discipline.

Because of this range in form and severity, the use of corporal punishment as a disciplinary method is controversial.

Children who receive corporal punishment tend to grow into angry adults.

The two types typically used with children are verbal reprimands and punishment involving physical pain, as in corporal punishment.

In the English criminal law, where corporal punishment is ordered by the court for certain criminal offences, the "cat" is used only where the prisoner is over sixteen years of age.