Lenity - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Rule of lenity
Rule of lenity, means the judicial doctrine holding that a court, in construing an ambiguous criminal statute that set out multiple or inconsistent punishments, should resolve the ambiguity in favour of the more lenient punishment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1332....
Lenience
The quality or state of being lenient lenity clemency...
Lenitude
The quality or habit of being lenient lenity...
Lenity
The state or quality of being lenient mildness of temper or disposition gentleness of treatment softness tenderness clemency opposed to severity and rigor...
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