| 单词 | non-clergyable | 
| 释义 | non-clergyableadj. Law. Now historical and rare.   Of an offence: not admitting of a plea of benefit of clergy (and therefore disallowing an exemption or more lenient sentence); = unclergyable adj.   Opposed to clergyable.Almost always used with reference to the extended application of ‘benefit of clergy’ to first-time offenders: see note at unclergyable adj. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > 			[adjective]		 > types of crime generally > types of offence according to punishment penalc1443 capital?1531 purgeable1644 transportable1769 statutable1782 unclergyable1817 non-clergyable1826 extraditable1887 sanctionable1927 imprisonable1971 1826    J. Chitty Pract. Treaty Criminal Law 		(ed. 2)	 I. Addenda 1015  				Where the prisoner is convicted of a non-clergyable felony, a pardon..countersigned by one of the principal secretaries of state, is sufficient. 1917    Amer. Hist. Rev 22 556  				For a first offense..any man or woman could, after 1705, claim benefit of clergy unless the offense was expressly declared non-clergyable by statute. 1982    Amer. Jrnl. Legal Hist. 26 339  				This statute..allowed courts to order that those convicted of non-clergyable offenses but conditionally pardoned be transported for fourteen years. 2005    Representations 89 57 		(note)	  				See..Green's comments on Cockburn's statistics on jury acquittals of nonclergiable highway robberies. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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