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Lynch Law :: Lynch law () The act or practice by private persons of inflicting punishment for crimes or offenses, without due process of law..

Mittimus :: Mittimus (n.) A precept or warrant granted by a justice for committing to prison a party charged with crime; a warrant of commitment to prison.

Regulator :: Regulator (n.) A member of a volunteer committee which, in default of the lawful authority, undertakes to preserve order and prevent crimes; also, sometimes, one of a band organized for the comission of violent crimes..

Accuse :: Accuse (v. t.) To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense.

Incesttuous :: Incesttuous (a.) Guilty of incest; involving, or pertaining to, the crime of incest; as, an incestuous person or connection..

Pederasty :: Pederasty (n.) The crime against nature; sodomy.

Criminal :: Criminal (a.) Guilty of crime or sin.

Alibi :: Alibi (n.) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi..

Crime :: Crime (n.) That which occasion crime.

Aggravation :: Aggravation (n.) The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences..

Infamous :: Infamous (a.) Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at common law, an infamous person can not be a witness..

Indict :: Indict (v. t.) To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to find an indictment against; as, to indict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach..

Punishment :: Punishment (n.) Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense..

Note :: Note (n.) To charge, as with crime (with of or for before the thing charged); to brand..

Exculpation :: Exculpation (n.) The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime; that which exculpates; excuse.

Criminate :: Criminate (v. t. ) To accuse of, or charge with, a crime..

Pain :: Pain (n.) Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty..

Conspirant :: Conspirant (a.) Engaging in a plot to commit a crime; conspiring.

Atone :: Atone (v. i.) To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime..

Unnatural :: Unnatural (a.) Not natural; contrary, or not conforming, to the order of nature; being without natural traits; as, unnatural crimes..

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