Merciful - Law Dictionary Search Results

Prerogative of mercy

Prerogative of mercy. In early times the operation of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy was far wider than at the...

In mercy, means at a judge's discretion concerning punishment. A judgment formerly noted which litigant lost by stating that the...

Recommendation to mercy. See MERCY

Mercy, Recommendation to. It has for many years been common for a jury in finding a prisoner guilty, especially where...

Pardon, forgiveness of a crime; remission of punis-hment. The pardoning of criminals is the peculiar preroga-tive of the sovereign. See...

Miserere (have mercy). The name and first word of one of the penitential psalms, being that which was commonly used...

Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III...

[Anglo-French amerciment, from amercier to fine, from Old French a merci at one's mercy] : a fine or damages imposed at

Having a temper or disposition to pity sympathetic merciful