Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Carcer ad homines custodiendos, non ad puniendos, dari debet
Imprisonment should be imposed for keeping people in confinement, not for punishing them (further). Co. Litt 260a.
Carcer non supplicii causa sed custodiae constitutus
A prison is established not for the sake of punishment, but for detention under guard.
Incarceration
n. The act or process of confining someone; IMPRISONMENT. - incarcerate vb. - incarcerator, n.
Interest reipublicae ut carceres sint in tuto.
It is in the interest of the state that prisons should be secure.
Nulla curia quae recordum non habet potest imponere finem neque aliquem rnandare carceri; quia ista spectant tantummodo ad curias de recordo
No court that does not have a record can impose a fine or commit any person to prison; because those powers look only to courts of record.
carcer
[Latin "jail, prison"] Hist. A prison or jail, esp. one used to detain rather than punish. ( Carcer, as used in English law and Roman law, usu. referred to a jail used as a place of detention during trial or after sentence pending execution, rather than as a place of punishment. The modern term incarceration derives from this word.
disincarcerate
vb. To release from jail; to set free.
shock incarceration
See INCARCERATION
shock incarceration.
Incarceration in a military-type setting, usu. for three to six months, during which the offender is subjected to strict discipline, physical exercise, and hard labor. ( Upon successful completion of the program, the offender is placed on probation. - Also termed boot camp. Cf. shock probation under PROBATION (1). in casu proviso (in kay-s[y]oo pro-vi-zoh). See CASU PROVISO.