Bill of pains and penalties
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| a special act of a legislature which inflicts a punishment less than death upon persons supposed to be guilty of treason or felony, without any conviction in the ordinary course of judicial proceedings. | |
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.