Exculpated

Exculpation

The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime that which exculpates excuse...

exculpate -pat·ed -pat·ing [Medieval Latin exculpare, from Latin ex- out of + culpa blame] : to clear from alleged fault or guilt [a statement…offered to the accused is not admissible unless corroborating circumstances clearly indicate the trustworthiness of the statement "Federal Rules of Evidence Rule 804(b)(3)"] compare acquit, exonerate ex·cul·pa·tion [ek-skəl-pā-shən] n ...

Exculpation, letters of

Exculpation, letters of, a warrant granted at the suit of a prisoner for citing witnesses in his own defence, Scots Law....

Exculpable

Capable of being exculpated deserving exculpation...

exonerated

same as exculpated...

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

Exculpate

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

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....

Inculpate

To blame to impute guilt to to accuse to involve or implicate in guilt Contrasted with exculpate...

Excuse

To free from accusation or the imputation of fault or blame to clear from guilt to release from a charge to justify by extenuating a fault to exculpate to absolve to acquit...

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