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Miserere

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Miserere (have mercy). The name and first word of one of the penitential psalms, being that which was commonly used to be given by the ordinary to such condemned malefactors as were allowed the benefit of clergy, whence it is also called the Psalm of Mercy, Jac. Law Dict.

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