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Representative Peers

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Those who, at the commencement of every new parliament, are elected to represent Scotland and Ireland in the British house of lords. Brown. REPRIEVE (from Fr. reprendre, to take back). In criminal practice. The withdrawing of a sentence for an interval of time, which operates in delay of execution.

4 Bl. Comm. 394.

It is a deferring of sentence to a definite day, as opposed to an indefinite "suspension."

1 Park. Cr. R. 266.

See "Pardon."

See Pardon.