5.4 Determining the Term of Imprisonment

The sentence's arithmetic — the Sentencing Act 2074's discipline and the courts' jurisprudence:1. Custody credit: the pre-trial and pre-sentence detention counted against the term (the remand's deduction — the "from arrest" computation).2. Concurrent vs consecutive: multiple sentences' operation — the general practice of concurrent running where the law so provides, and the single-act ceiling: where one act constitutes several offences, the rule against cumulation — only the maximum sentence isserved.3. The case is the standard citation for term-determination and the anti-cumulation principle.4. Fine default and conversion: the fine's non-payment consequences (recovery against property; the default custody within the statute's conversion rules).5. Remission, parole and release: the sentence's shortening faces (good conduct, the Sentencing Act's parole; the President's constitutional pardon face — the remission instruments) and the sentence-register's administration (the prison's computation and the court's oversight).