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  • 71Responsabilite politique — Responsabilité politique Née de la responsabilité pénale, la responsabilité politique était considérée par les juristes comme le stade avancé de la responsabilité dans une société où sont respectés les droits fondamentaux. Cependant, en raison… …

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  • 72Responsabilité politique — Née de la responsabilité pénale, la responsabilité politique était considérée par les juristes comme le stade avancé de la responsabilité dans une société où sont respectés les droits fondamentaux. Cependant, en raison des insuffisances de la… …

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  • 73reformatory — re·for·ma·to·ry /ri fȯr mə ˌtōr ē/ n pl ries: a penal institution to which esp. young or first offenders are committed for training and reformation Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. reformatory …

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  • 74reformatory — A penal institution, sometimes a state institution, intended as a place of imprisonment or confinement of persons convicted of crimes of a less serious nature who appear to be of a type subject to reformation by a proper course of treatment,… …

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  • 75institute — in·sti·tute 1 vt tut·ed, tut·ing 1: to establish in a particular position or office; specif in the civil law of Louisiana: to appoint as heir see also instituted heir at heir 2: to get started …

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  • 76Deer Island Prison — Deer Island House of Correction, 20th c. The Deer Island Prison (ca.1880 1991) in Suffolk County, Massachusetts was located on Deer Island in Boston Harbor. Also known as the Deer Island House of Industry and later, House of Correction, it held… …

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  • 77pe·nal — /ˈpiːnl̩/ adj 1 always used before a noun : relating to or used for punishment penal laws a penal institution [=prison] a penal colony [=a place where prisoners are sent to live] 2 …

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  • 78prison — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Place of confinement Nouns 1. prison, penitentiary; maximum, medium, or minimum security prison, jail, lockup, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell, oubliette; cell block; stronghold, fortress, keep, dungeon,… …

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  • 79reformatory — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. reform school, juvenile detention ward, juvenile prison. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. reform school, house of correction, penal institution, penitentiary, school for young delinquents, borstal (British),… …

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  • 80penitentiary — n 1. prison, state prison, maximum security prison, minimum security prison, penal institution, house of correction or detention, Sl. pen, Sl. big house, Sl. slammer, Sl. stir; reformatory, reform school, (in England) borstal institution. 2. jail …

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