Another word for offender

3 (1690), which makes an offender liable for treble damages.

unsuccessful litigants are to be calculated according to the measure of their offence, and are not to be arbitrary pepalties raised or lowered at the kings good pleasure according to the sum that he imagined that the offender could be induced to pay.

The chief offender was not brought to justice until a second punitive expedition in 1899 completed the pacification of the country.

enabled the diocesan alone, without the co-operation of a synod, to pronounce sentence of heresy, and required the sheriff to execute it by burning the offender, without waiting for the consent of the crown.'

The offender is only treated as a heathen and publican when the purity and safety of the church demand it.