ACCUMULATIVE JUDGMENT

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ACCUMULATIVE JUDGMENT


ACCUMULATIVE JUDGMENT. A second or additional judgment given against one, who has been convicted, the execution or effect of which is to commenceafter the first has expired; as, where a man is sentenced to an imprisonmentfor six months on conviction of larceny, and, afterwards he is convicted ofburglary, he may be sentenced to undergo an imprisonment for the lattercrime, to commence after the expiration of the first imprisonment; this iscalled an accumulative judgment.

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