Cumulative Sentences
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Sentences on a trial and conviction of several crimes, each sentence being in addition to the others, and not for the same fine or concurrent terms of imprisonment. See "Concurrent Sentences."
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Separate sentences (each additional to the others) imposed upon a defendant who has been convicted upon an indictment containing several counts, each of such counts charging a distinct offense, or who is under conviction at the same time for several distinct offenses ; one of such sentences being made to begin at the expiration of another. Carter v. McClaughry, 183 U. S. 365, 22 Sun. Ct. 181, 46 L. Ed. 236; State v. Hamby, 126 N. C. 1066, 35 S. E. 614,
Defined under Sentence in Black's Law Dictionary.