cumulative punishment
1cumulative punishment — punishment to be put into effect after another previous one …
2cumulative punishment — The greater punishment imposed on an habitual or second offender; consecutive sentences rather than concurrent sentences. See habitual criminals; consecutive sentences …
3punishment — Any fine, penalty, or confinement inflicted upon a person by the authority of the law and the judgment and sentence of a court, for some crime or offense committed by him, or for his omission of a duty enjoined by law. A deprivation of property… …
4cumulative — /kyumyalatav/ Additional; heaping up; increasing; forming an aggregate. The word signifies that two things are to be added together, instead of one being a repetition or in substitution of the other. As to cumulative dividend, cumulative… …
5cumulative — /kyumyalatav/ Additional; heaping up; increasing; forming an aggregate. The word signifies that two things are to be added together, instead of one being a repetition or in substitution of the other. As to cumulative dividend, cumulative… …
6cumulative penalties — Successive or continuing penalties for delay in payment of claims, or performance of a contract or violation of statute. 36 Am J2d Forf & P §§ 55, 65. See cumulative punishment …
7B. F. Skinner — Burrhus Frederic Skinner Born March 20, 1904(1904 03 20) Susquehanna, Pennsyl …
8sentence — sen·tence 1 / sent əns, ənz/ n [Old French, opinion, judicial sentence, from Latin sententia, ultimately from sentire to feel, think, express an opinion] 1: a judgment formally pronouncing the punishment to be inflicted on one convicted of a… …
9United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
10china — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. a translucent ceramic material, biscuit fired at a high temperature, its glaze fired at a low temperature. 2. any porcelain ware. 3. plates, cups, saucers, etc., collectively. 4. figurines made of porcelain or ceramic material …
