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Merger
amount in law to a felony. Merger in law is defined as the absorption of a thing of lesser importance by a greater, whereby the lesser ceases to exist, but the greater is not increased; an absorption
verdict
with the deliberative process; having a jury achieve unanimity on a higher charge first discourages compromise verdicts on lesser included offenses. In some jurisdictions it has been considered proper to afford the jury the opportunity to render
implied acquittal
offense (as first-degree murder) that is considered to result from a verdict which convicts the defendant of a lesser included offense while remaining silent on the greater one NOTE: A greater offense and a lesser included offense
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Merger in law
Merger in law, is defined as the absorption of a thing of lesser importance by a greater, whereby the lesser ceases to exist, but the greater is not increased; and absorption
Quod in minori valet valebit in majori, et quod in majori non valet nec valebit in minori
majori, et quod in majori non valet nec valebit in minori (Co. Litt. 260a), what avails in the lesser will avail in the greater; and what does not avail in the greater will not avail in the
reversion
interest in the residue of an estate that remains in its owner after the grant therefrom of a lesser estate (as a life estate) and that will commence in possession by operation of law upon termination of
Excommunication
Excommunication, an ecclesiastical interdict or censure, divided into the greater and the lesser; by the greater a person was excluded from the communion of the church and the company of the
Domesday, or domesday-book
of William the Conqueror, and now kept at the Record Office, consisting of two volumes, a greater and lesser; the greater containing a survey of all the lands in England except the counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland,
defense
assertion that the criminal act was committed to avoid the commission of an even greater evil called also lesser evils defense NOTE: In jurisdictions that recognize the choice of evils defense, it encompasses both of the older
Grace, pilgrimage of
which broke out in the northern counties in the reign of Henry VIII. after the suppression of the lesser monasteries, the principal object being the restoration of the Church.
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