capital punishment punishment that consists of killing the offender.

Methods vary around the world and include, or have included, hanging, garrotting, use of the guillotine, shooting, gassing, lethal injection and electrocution. In the UK, general capital punishment for murder was abolished by the Murder (Abolition of Death Penal- ty) Act 1965 and was replaced by life imprisonment. Capital punish- ment for TREASON and PIRACY was abolished by the Crime and Dis- order Act 1998. See CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, DEATH PENALTY.

• conacre
• concealment of pregnancy
• concert
• concerted practice
• conciliation
• conclusions
• conclusive evidence
• concubinage
• concurrent sentence
• condescendence
• condictio
• condictio indebiti
• condictio sine causa
• condition
• conditional fee agreement
• conditional sale agreement
• conditio si testator sine liberis decesserit
• condominium
• condonation
• confession and avoidance
• confessions
• confidence
• confirmation
• confiscation
• conflict of laws