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exonerate

exonerate -at·ed -at·ing [Latin exonerare to relieve, free, discharge, from ex- out + onerare to burden, from oner- onus load] 1 : to relieve esp. of a charge, obligation, or hardship 2 : to clear from accusation or blame compare acquit, exculpate ...

exculpatory

exculpatory : tending or serving to exculpate [an clause in a contract] compare inculpatory ...

Disculpation

Exculpation...

exculpated

freed from any question of guilt having suspicion of guilt eliminated...

exonerated

same as exculpated...

Burglary

Burglary [fr. burg, Sax., a house, and larron, a thief, fr. latro, Lat.]. At Common Law burglary is the breaking and entering of the dwelling-house of another in the night-time with intent to commit a felony therein. S. 25 of the (English) Larceny Act, 1916, provides that-Means the act of breaking and entering an inhabited structure (as a house) especially at night with intent to commit a felony (as murder or larcency), the act of entering or remaining unlawfully (as after closing to the public) in a building with intent to commit a crime (as a felony). The crime of burglary was originally defined under the common law to protect people, since there were other laws, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 61.Burglary, is the common law offence of breaking and entering another's dwelling at night with the intent to commit a felony. The modern statutory offence of breaking and entering any building not just a dwelling and not only at night - with the intent to commit a felony....

Lada

Lada [fr. lathian, Sax.], a lath, or inferior Court of justice; also a course of water, or a broadway.Means purgation, exculpation. There were three kinds: (1) That wherein the accused cleared himself by his own oath, supported by the oaths of his consacramentals (compurgators), according to the number of which the lada was said to be either simple or three-fold; (2) Ordeal; (3) Corsned. See CORSNED BREAD.Means also, a service which consisted in supplying the lord with beasts of burden; or, as defined by Roquefort: Service qu'un vassal devoit a son seigneur, et qui consistoit a faire quelques voyages par ses betes de somme, Anc. Inst. Eng....

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