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HARD LABOR Definition & Legal Meaning

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A punishment, additional to mere imprisonment, sometimes imposedupon convicts sentenced to a penitentiary. But the labor is not, as a rule, any harderthan ordinary mechanical labor. Brown v. State, 74 Ala. 4S3.

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