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Mercy
Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation when one has the power to inflict it compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary clemency
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Prerogative of mercy
Prerogative of mercy. In early times the operation of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy was far wider than at the present day, as it was not only extended to some persons who in later ages would...
In mercy
In mercy, means at a judge's discretion concerning punishment. A judgment formerly noted which litigant lost by stating that the unsuccessful party was in the court's mercy. A plaintiff held in mercy for a false claim,...
Mercy, Recommendation to
Mercy, Recommendation to. It has for many years been common for a jury in finding a prisoner guilty, especially where the crime is murder, to accompany their verdict by a recommendation of the prisoner to the...
Recommendation to mercy
Recommendation to mercy. See MERCY
mercy killing
mercy killing
Miserere
Miserere (have mercy). The name and first word of one of the penitential psalms, being that which was commonly used to be given by the ordinary to such condemned malefactors as were allowed the benefit of...
Quemeful
Kindly merciful
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