Externment
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Externment is a noun meaning (India) Exile; banishment, as a sentence for crime.
Meaning
(India) Exile; banishment, as a sentence for crime.
Example Sentences
We should note an argument advanced in favour of externments for unlimited time.
An externment of a person is a harsh punishment on him and calls for procedural safeguards against the abuse of power by the authorities.
The Court also observed that the East Punjab Public Safety Act, 1949, did not authorise the Provincial Government to order the externment from the Province of a person ordinarily residing in the Province, but only the outsiders.
Word Forms
- externments
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include deportation, exposition, expulsion, rebanishment, excommunion, exolution.
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