Correction
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CORRECTION,punishment. Chastisement by one having authority of a person who
has committed some offence, for the purpose of bringing him to legal
subjection.
2. It is chiefly exercised in a parental manner, by parents, or those
who are placed in loco parentis. A parent may therefore justify the
correction of the child either corporally or by confinement; and a
schoolmaster, under whose care and instruction a parent has placed his
child, may equally justify similar correction; but the correction in both,
cases must be moderate, and in proper manner. Com. Dig. Pleader, 3 M. 19;
Hawk. c. 60, s. 23, and c. 62, s. 2 c. 29, s. 5.
3. The master of an apprentice, for disobedience, may correct him
moderately 1 Barn. & Cres. 469 Cro. Car. 179 2 Show. 289; 10 Mart. Lo. It.
38; but he cannot delegate the authority to another. 9 Co. 96.
4. A master has no right to correct his servants who are not
apprentices.
5. Soldiers are liable to moderate correction from their superiors. For
the sake of maintaining their discipline on board of the navy, the captain
of a vessel, either belonging to the United States, or to private
individuals, may inflict moderate correction on a sailor for disobedience or
disorderly conduct. Abbott on Shipp. 160; 1 Ch. Pr. 73; 14 John. R. 119; 15
)lass. 365; 1 Bay, 3; Bee, 161; 1 Pet. Adm. Dec. 168; Molloy, 209; 1 Ware's
R. 83. Such has been the general rule. But by a proviso to an act of
congress, approved the 28th of September, l850, flogging in the navy and on
board vessels of commerce was abolished.
6. Any excess of correction by the parent, master, officer, or captain,
may render the party guilty of an assault and battery, and liable to all its
consequences. In some prisons, the keepers have the right to correct the
prisoners.