restitution
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So these figures for every administration represent a ceiling: the full amount of fines, restitution or forfeiture that a judge imposed on a convicted defendant.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
In return, he’d get comforts for his death row cell, including a television, as well as $33,000 to pay off a restitution order and purchase headstones for his parents’ graves, The Times reported.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
While some of those who have lost their jobs have been reinstated or received restitution - sometimes in the millions - others like Bourguet have had to rebuild from scratch.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Baum and other heirs, meanwhile, spent years navigating complex restitution claims for expropriated properties and assets.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
On top of that, probation officers in most states can require that an individual dedicate 35 percent of his or her income toward the payment of fines, fees, surcharges, and restitution charged by numerous agencies.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
"It must be ensured that there is also a state-of-the-art procedure for future private restitutions."
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2024
Under the court settlement, precious metals dealer Argent Asset Group and First State Depository Company, which were both owned by Mr Higgins, were ordered to make restitutions of $112.7m and pay a penalty of $33m.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2023
Hicks, who spoke alongside Osanna at the restitution conference, has argued that anthropological museums today must now become the public spaces to debate problematic collections, while permitting also case-by-case restitutions.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023
It has also undertaken two high-profile restitutions from its colonial past: In 2005, Italy returned to Ethiopia the massive, 160-ton Axum Obelisk, which Mussolini ordered sent to Rome in 1937 after his troops overran Ethiopia.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023
All these ten restitutions cost only ten pauls!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
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