Lenient - Law Dictionary Search Results
Last proximate act test
This test has been rejected by most courts as too lenient, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 887.
Respiciendum est judicanti, ne quid aut durius aut remissius constituatur quam causa deposcit; nec enim aut severitatis aut clementia gloria affectanda est
matter of import to one adjudicating that nothing either more lenient or more severe than the cause itself warrants should be
Rule of lenity
punishments, should resolve the ambiguity in favour of the more lenient punishment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1332.
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