Mitigation - Definition - Law Dictionary Home Dictionary Definition mitigation

Definition :

Mitigation, abatement of anything penal, harsh, or painful. An address in mitigation is a speech made by the defendant or his counsel to the judge, after verdict or plea of guilty, and which may be followed by a speech in aggravation from the prosecuting counsel.

By 27 & 28 Vict.c.110, justices were prohibited from mitigating minimum penalties in pursuance of any power of mitigating penalties conferred on such justices by any local or private Act of Parliament; but this Act is repealed, as to England, by the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, which gives an al-most unlimited power of mitigating such penalties as may be imposed by justices. See also the Probation of Offenders Act,1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 17).

Mitigation, means measures aimed at reducing the impact or effects of a disaster. [Gujarat State Disaster Management Act, 2003, s. 2(m)]