Misericordia - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: misericordiaMisericordia
Misericordia, an arbitrary amerciament or punishment imposed on any person for an offence. it is thus called, according to Fitzherbert, because it ought to be but small and less than that required by Magna Charta, Anc. Inst. Eng.Also, a discharge of all manner of amerciaments, which a person might incur in the forest. See CAPLAS PR FINE. See 1 Chit. Arch. Prac., 12th Edn. 527....
Misericordia communis
Misericordia communis, a fine set on a whole county or hundred....
Tutius semper est errare acquietando quam in puniendo, ex parte misericordia quam ex parte justitia
Tutius semper est errare acquietando quam in puniendo, ex parte misericordia quam ex parte justitia (H.H. P.C. 290), it is always safer to err in acquitting than in punishing: on the side of mercy, then of strict justice....
Capias pro fine, or misericordia
Capella, an oratory, or depending place of divine worship; also a chest, cabinet, or other depository of precious things, especially of religious relics, Ken. Paroch. Antiq. 580....
Capitatur
Capitatur, judgment quod. See CAPIAS PRO FINE, or MISERICORDIA....
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, for example, was said to be in misericordia pro falso clamore suo, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 791....
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