What is BANISHMENT? Definition of BANISHMENT in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
In criminal law. A punishment inflicted upon criminals, by compelling them to quit a city, place, or country for a specified period of time, or for life. Cooper v. Telfair, 4 Dall. 14, 1 L.Ed. 721; People v. Potter, 1 Park.Cr.R. (N.Y.) v. Synonymous with exilement and imports acompulsory loss of one's country. 3 P. Wms. 38.
It is inflicted principally upon political offenders, "transportation" being the word used to express a similar punishment of ordinary criminals. Banishment, however, merely forbids the return of the person banis'ed before the expiration of the sentence, while transportation involves the idea of deprivation of liberty after the convict arrives at the place to which he has been carried. Rap. & L.
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