externment

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noun

Exile; banishment, as a sentence for crime.

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Meanings

nounexternment (plural externments)

plural externments

  1. IndiaExile; banishment, as a sentence for crime.

    We should note an argument advanced in favour of externments for unlimited time.

    1967, The All-Pakistan Legal Decisions, Vol. 10, Part 4, p. 115
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    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.

    1953, The Indian Journal of Political Science, volumes 14-15, page 112

    An externment of a person is a harsh punishment on him and calls for procedural safeguards against the abuse of power by the authorities.

    1983, D. C. Pandey, Habitual Offenders and the Law, page 31

Origin

From extern + -ment.

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