Merciful - Law Dictionary Search Results
Recreant
Crying for mercy as a combatant in the trial by battle yielding cowardly mean spirited craven
Merciless
Destitute of mercy cruel unsparing said of animate beings and also figuratively of things as a merciless tyrant merciless waves
Loving kindness
Tender regard mercy favor
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Grand mercy
See Gramercy
Pardon
Pardon, forgiveness of a crime; remission of punis-hment. The pardoning of criminals is the peculiar preroga-tive of the sovereign. See 4 Steph. Com., 7th Edn. The sovereign may pardon all offences merely against the Crown and...
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents...
amercement
amercement [Anglo-French amerciment, from amercier to fine, from Old French a merci at one's mercy] : a fine or damages imposed at the discretion of the court
Compassionate
Having a temper or disposition to pity sympathetic merciful
Pitiful
Full of pity tender hearted compassionate kind merciful sympathetic
Clement
Mild in temper and disposition merciful compassionate
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