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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In French law and in Louisiana. Incarceration as a punishment for crime; a temporary, afflictive, and Infamous punishment, consisting in being confined at hard labor in a penal institution, and carrying civil degradation.

See Phelps v. Reinach, 38 La. Ann. 651; Jurgens v. Itt-man, 47 La. Ann. 367, 16 South. 952.