petty offence

It was often used as a form of punishment for minor and petty offences.

For this reason, petty offences would not be punishable under the directive.

She has been charged with a number of petty offences but never anything as serious as attempted murder.

The least dangerous men, condemned to prison for petty offences, were offered jobs in the penitentiary administration.

The new courts were designed to relieve police courts of petty offences.

Eventually they were given the right to try petty offences which had formerly been tried in the Hundred Courts.

On this basis, zero tolerance of petty offences can send a powerful social signal about much more serious crimes.

These systems are primarily targeted at petty offences.

They patrolled the streets and aimed to prevent, by their presence, the committing of petty offences or minor disorder.

Then they commit a few petty offences and are slapped with a deportation order to a country that they have no living memory of.

It was widely acknowledged that few settlers hesitated to flog their servants for petty offences.

More damningly, it has abandoned the 'underclass'- where the desperate poor are driven to petty offences.

The Government recently tried to stop councils fining people for petty offences such as "contaminating" recycling boxes with residual waste.

Thus, to try the case of a petty offence which involved both Greek and Turkish Cypriots, two judges had to sit.

Gould was sent to work on the brickfields, but was soon in trouble again, mainly for petty offences involving theft and drunkenness.

Between the age of 15 and 18, Dibra was charged with a number of petty offences, including possession of drugs (marijuana).

But at the coalface there were tensions, especially when miners were prosecuted for petty offences such as being late for work without permission.

Thus the headman had a veto over criminal prosecutions for the petty offences over which village tribunals had exclusive jurisdiction.

Acts of stalking can be viewed as "interfering [with] the tranquility of others' lives" and are prohibited under petty offence laws.

In France private prosecution is called citation directe, and is possible only for misdemeanours and petty offences, if the victim has evidences of the offence.

Section 2 was applied for petty offences; punishable by fines only, nolle prosequi was easy to receive for minor drug crimes in the 70s.

On Jaconda, Mestor is seen putting one of the bird-like Jacondans to death for a petty offence of stealing a few vegetables.

European enterprises must be made aware that the unscrupulous exploitation of Africa's natural resources is not a petty offence, and so Europe's policies must set a good example.

Author Philip Sugden discovered prison records showing that Ostrog was jailed for petty offences in France during the Ripper murders.

Leonid Nikolaev (also spelt Nikolayev) was well-known to the NKVD, which had arrested him for various petty offences in recent years.