 | 1835 - 612 pàgines
...punishment is very seldom inflicted. The most incorrigible culprits are punished with the loss of cither one or both hands, and deprivation of nose or ears...heinous transgressions. On the commission of a daka or a burglary, a quzzakee, or highway robbery, the chief, within whose jurisdiction the act has been perpetrated,... | |
 | 1846 - 344 pàgines
...they are generally permitted to resume their functions, honoured with the shawl, as a mark of favour. Capital punishment is very seldom inflicted. The most...the chief whose subject has suffered resorts to the leaf talionis, and drives off several hundred head of cattle, or retaliates in some way or other. This... | |
 | Philip William Perfitt - 1861 - 430 pàgines
...Capital punishment is very seldom inflicted. The most incorrigible culprits are punished with the losa of either one or both hands, and deprivation of nose...commission of a daka, or burglary, a quzzakee, or iighway robbery, the chief, within whose jurisdiction the act had been perpetrated, was called upon... | |
 | Charles Lewis Tupper - 1893 - 448 pàgines
...they are generally permitted to resume their functions, honoured with the shawl as a mark of favour. Capital punishment is very seldom inflicted. The most...time, may expiate the most heinous transgressions." Claims for justice being thus recognised as opportunities for exaction, it is not surprising that petty... | |
| |
... and required to refund ; and, when they have satisfied the cupidity of their superior, they are generally permitted to resume their functions, honoured with the shawl, as a mark of favour. Capital punishment is very seldom inflicted. The most incorrigible... 