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Empower :: Empower (v. t.) To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor..

Piacular :: Piacular (a.) Requiring expiation; criminal; atrociously bad.

Nocent :: Nocent (n.) A criminal.

Deathwatch :: Deathwatch (n.) The guard set over a criminal before his execution.

Conversation :: Conversation (n.) Sexual intercourse; as, criminal conversation..

Assize :: Assize (n.) A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury..

Bushranger :: Bushranger (n.) One who roams, or hides, among the bushes; especially, in Australia, an escaped criminal living in the bush..

Apprehend :: Apprehend (v. t.) Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal..

Assize :: Assize (n.) The periodical sessions of the judges of the superior courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; -- usually in the plural.

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

Inquest :: Inquest (n.) A body of men assembled under authority of law to inquire into any matterm civil or criminal, particularly any case of violent or sudden death; a jury, particularly a coroner's jury. The grand jury is sometimes called the grand inquest. See under Grand..

Object :: Object (v. t.) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.

Criminology :: Criminology (n.) A treatise on crime or the criminal population.

Crown Office :: Crown office () The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases..

Asylum :: Asylum (n.) A sanctuary or place of refuge and protection, where criminals and debtors found shelter, and from which they could not be forcibly taken without sacrilege..

Knout :: Knout (n.) A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh..

Resetter :: Resetter (n.) One who receives or conceals, as stolen goods or criminal..

Culprit :: Culprit (p. p.) One quilty of a fault; a criminal.

Transport :: Transport (v. t.) To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish..

Civilization :: Civilization (n.) Rendering a criminal process civil.

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