Guilt - Law Dictionary Search Results

Inculpate

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

or was accompanied by so much information as was necessary to enable him to clear himself of the guilt, if possible, even at that stage, or, in the alternative, to show that the penalty proposed was much

Purging

made through the expression of sincere remorse coupled with doing the penance required. In the case of a guilt, purging means to get himself cleared of the guilt. The concept of purgatory was evolved from the word

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Trial

1978 Ker LT 546. Means the examination and determination of a cause by a judicial tribunal determination of guilt of innocence of an accused person by a court, State v. Haridas Mundhara, 1974 Cal WN 929. Means

Expiate

To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent to make complete satisfaction for to atone for to make

confession

as true or proven ;esp : a written or oral statement by an accused party acknowledging the party's guilt (as by admitting commission of a crime) compare admission declaration against interest at declaration, self-incrimination NOTE: Courts differ

innocence

innocence : freedom from fault or guilt under the law: as a : the state of not being guilty of a particular crime or offense

conviction

1 : the act or process of convicting ;also : the final judgment entered after a finding of guilt [a prior of murder] [would not overturn the ] compare acquittal NOTE: Jurisdictions differ as to what constitutes

exculpated

freed from any question of guilt having suspicion of guilt eliminated

Character

charged or that he is of bad character, unless (i.) proof of such offence is evidence of his guilt of the offence charged; or (ii.) 'he has personally or by his advocate asked questions of the witnesses

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