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  2. Sanctions (law) - Wikipedia

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    Sanctions, in law and legal definition, are penalties or other means of enforcement used to provide incentives for obedience with the law or other rules and regulations. [1] Criminal sanctions can take the form of serious punishment , such as corporal or capital punishment , incarceration , or severe fines .

  3. Sentence (law) - Wikipedia

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    The sentences of condemnation are also classified by the penalty they determine: sentence of reclusion, sentence of fee, sententia agendi, sentence that impose a determined action or a series of action as a penalty for the illegal act. This kind of sentence became better developed and remained in wider use in common law systems.

  4. Civil penalty - Wikipedia

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    In some cases, a civil penalty may be supplemented by other legal process, including administrative sanctions or even criminal charges, and their respective appeals. For example, failure to pay a fine assessed for a traffic code violation may result in administrative suspension of a driver's license , and further driving after suspension may be ...

  5. Collateral consequences of criminal conviction - Wikipedia

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    Collateral consequences of criminal conviction are the additional civil state penalties, mandated by statute, that attach to a criminal conviction. They are not part of the direct consequences of criminal conviction, such as prison, fines, or probation. They are the further civil actions by the state that are triggered as a consequence of the ...

  6. Latae sententiae and ferendae sententiae - Wikipedia

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    A latae sententiae penalty is a penalty that is inflicted ipso facto, automatically, by force of the law itself, at the very moment a law is contravened, hence a broadly applied judgment. A ferendae sententiae penalty is a penalty that is inflicted on a guilty party only after a case has been brought and decided by an authority in the Church. [2]

  7. Criminal-justice financial obligations in the United States

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    Law portal; Civil penalty, a financial penalty imposed by a government agency as restitution for wrongdoing in the case of a civil rather than criminal offense; Court costs, the cost associated with pursuing a legal case; History of United States Prison Systems; Race in the United States criminal justice system

  8. CalWORKs - Wikipedia

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    While CalWORKs seems to be effective at getting participants some employment, the quality of that employment is a bigger challenge. The large number of participants who are employed and receiving benefits at the same time illustrate that neither CalWORKs' benefits nor their wages are alone sufficient to meet their family's needs.

  9. Duty to rescue - Wikipedia

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    In common law systems, it is rarely formalized in statutes which would bring the penalty of law down upon those who fail to rescue. This does not necessarily obviate a moral duty to rescue: though law is binding and carries government-authorized sanctions and awarded civil penalties, there are also separate ethical arguments for a duty to ...