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Exculpate

To clear from alleged fault or guilt to prove to be guiltless to relieve of blame to acquit

the Pope or any other authority or person whatsoever or without thinking that I am or can be acquitted before God or man or absolved of this declaration or any part thereof although the Pope or any

Quietus

Quietus, freed or acquitted; discharged of all further liability; see, e.g., Ex parte Pullman, (1890) 45 Ch D 466. A word made

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Gordon Riots

for high treason on the charge of levying war against the King. He was defended by Erskine and acquitted for want of evidence; see 21 St. Tr. 485; Lecky's Hist. of England in the Eighteenth Century, ch.

Paribus sententiis reus absolvitur

Paribus sententiis reus absolvitur [Lat.], where opinions are equal, a defendant is acquitted.

Niskar Bhogdakhal Sutra

that the tenant is not actually paying rent to anybody. It does not mean that the tenant had acquitted rent-free title by possession and enjoyment, Kamla Ranjan Roy v. Ifram Sheik, 1948 Cal 14 relied on; Chakravarti,

Nemo debet bis vexari, si constat curi' quod sit pro una et eadem causa

is also well established in the criminal law, that when a man is indicted for an offence, and acquitted, he cannot afterwards be indicted for the same offence, provided the first indictment were such that he could

Merger

15 Vict. c. 100), s. 12, by which a prisoner tried for misdemeanour is not entitled to be acquitted of it if the facts proved amount in law to a felony. Merger in law is defined as

Medio acquietando

Medio acquietando, a judicial writ to distrain a lord for the acquitting of a mesne lord from a rent, which he had acknowledged in court not to belong to him,

Magna Carta

of the debt which they before paid for him, except that the debtor can show himself to be acquitted against the said sureties.' This order of enforcing Crown debts from debtors and their sureties appears to be

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