Section 7: In every case in which an offender is punishable with imprisonment which may be
be (in certain
cases of
of either description, it shall be competent to the Court which sentences such offender to
imprisonment) direct in the sentence that such imprisonment shall be wholly rigorous, or that such
wholly or imprisonment shall be wholly simple, or that any part of such imprisonment shall be rigorous
partly rigorous
or simple.
and the rest simple.
either conferred by law or arising out of a lawful contract made with that other, to pass in
good faith any censure on the conduct of that other in matters to which such lawful authority
relates.
Illustration.
A Judge censuring in good faith the conduct of a witness, or of an officer of the Court;
a head of a department censuring in good faith those who are under his orders, a parent
censuring in good faith a child in the presence of other children; a school master, whose
authority is derived from a parent, censuring in good faith a pupil in the presence of other
pupils; a master censuring a servant in good faith for remissness in service; a banker censuring
in good faith the cashier of his bank for the conduct of such cashier as such cashier are
within this exception.