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REPRIEVE (reprise, from Fr. reprendre)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 116 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REPRIEVE (reprise, from Fr. reprendre) , in See also:English See also:law, a See also:term which originally meant See also:remand to See also:prison: later and more usually, the suspension for a See also:time of the See also:execution of a See also:sentence passed on conviction of See also:crime. The term is now seldom or never used except with reference to sentences of See also:death. Inthe See also:case of See also:capital felonies other than See also:murder the recording of sentence of death has the effect of a reprieve by the See also:court. The court which can See also:award a sentence is said to possess as of See also:common right a discretionary See also:power of granting a reprieve. Courts of See also:justice, however, do not See also:grant reprieves by way of See also:dispensation from the penalties of the law, which is not for the judicial See also:department, but for temporary purposes, e.g. of See also:appeal or inquiry as to the See also:state of mind or See also:health of the convict, or to enable him to apply for a See also:pardon. Under the old See also:system of transportation it was a common practice to reprieve convicted felons as a step to induce them to consent to transportation to the See also:American colonies (see the Old See also:Bailey Regulations of 166a, J. Kelyng, ed. 1873, p. 1). In cases of conviction of wilful murder the reprieve, if any, is granted by the See also:home secretary on behalf of the See also:crown, and on convictions of murder the court seems now to have no power to reprieve except in the case of a pregnant woman. See See also:Hawkins, P.C. bk. 2, c.

51; See also:

Blackstone, Commentaries.

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