externment

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

extern +‎ -ment

Noun[edit]

externment (plural externments)

  1. (India) Exile; banishment, as a sentence for crime.
    • 1953, The Indian Journal of Political Science, volumes 14-15, page 112:
      The Court also observed that the East Punjab Public Safety Act, 1949, did not authorise the Provincial Government to order the externment from the Province of a person ordinarily residing in the Province, but only the outsiders.
    • 1967, The All-Pakistan Legal Decisions, Vol. 10, Part 4, p. 115:
      We should note an argument advanced in favour of externments for unlimited time.
    • 1983, D. C. Pandey, Habitual Offenders and the Law, page 31:
      An externment of a person is a harsh punishment on him and calls for procedural safeguards against the abuse of power by the authorities.

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