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Home Dictionary Name: mitigate Page: 3Mitigant
Tending to mitigate mitigating lenitive...
Mitigative
Tending to mitigate alleviating...
Mitigatory
Tending to mitigate or alleviate mitigative...
aggravate
aggravate -vat·ed -vat·ing : to make more serious, more severe, or worse [maliciousness aggravated the offense] [aggravated her preexisting condition] [aggravating factors] compare mitigate ag·gra·va·tion [a-grə-vā-shən] n ...
Apology
Apology, an apology is not a weapon defence to purge the guilty of their offence; not is it intended to operate as a universal panacea, but it is intended to be evidence of real contriteness, M.Y. Shareef v. Judges of Nagpur High Court, AIR 1955 SC 1923. (Contempt of Court Act, 1952, s. 4)--By the (English) Libel Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 96), s. 1, (commonly called Lord Campbell's Act), a defendant in an action of libel may in some cases plead the offer of an apology in mitigation of damages. And by s. 2, in any action for damages for a libel contained in a newspaper or other periodical publication, the defendant may plead an apology and pay money into Court. See LIBEL....
Executory devise
Executory devise. Mr. Fearne (Cont. Rem. 386) defines an executory devise to be, strictly, such a limitation of a future estate or interest in lands or chattels (though, in the case of chattels personal, it is more properly an executory bequest) as the law admits in the case of a will, though contrary to the rules of limitation in conveyances at Common Law. It is only an indulgence allowed to a man's last will and testament, where otherwise the words of the will would be void; for wherever a future interest is so limited by devise as to operate as a contingent remainder, such an interest is not an executory devise, but a contingent remainder.Executory Devises have been divided into three kinds, two relative to real, and the third to personal estate only, viz.:-(1) Where a testator devises his whole fee-simple, but upon some contingency qualifies such devise, and limits an estate on the contingency; e.g., a devise of land to the testator's wife for life, remainder to C., his second son ...
Ayurvedic, Siddha or Unani drug
Ayurvedic, Siddha or Unani drug, includes all medicines intended for internal or external use for or in the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation or prevention of disease or disorder in human beings or animals, and manufactured exclusively in accordance with the formulae described in, the authoritative books of Ayurvedic, Siddha and Unanin Tibb system of medicine, specified in the First Schedule. [Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 (23 of 1940), s. 3 (a)]...
Battered Woman's syndrome
Battered Woman's syndrome, means the psycho-logical symptoms buffered by a woman repeatedly abused by a mate (as a husband), Battered Woman's syndrome is used as defense to violent criminal charges (as homicide). Evidence of repeated abuse is used to show that the defendant acted in self-defence even though the threat or danger was not imminent; Battered Woman's syndrome is also used as a mitigating factor in sentencing, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 46....
Beset
Beset. S. 7 of the (English) Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 86), makes it an offence to beset the house or place where another resides or works with a view to compel him to abstain from doing or to do any act which he has a legal right to do or abstain from doing. The effect of this section in the case of a trade dispute has been mitigated by s. 2 of the (English) Trade Disputes Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 47), which legalizes 'peaceful picketing,' but by the (English) Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act, 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5. C. 22), s. 3, attending in such numbers or manner as is declared to be unlawful by the Act shall be deemed to be a watching or besetting within s. 7 of the 1875 Act....
Capital offences
Capital offences, those crimes upon conviction of which the offender is condemned to be hanged. The only crimes now punishable with death are high treason; murder; destruction of H. M. Ships, arsenals, etc. (12 Geo. 3, c. 24); piracy when accompanied by attempted murder [(English) Piracy Act, 1837 (7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 88) s. 2]. See PIRACY.Originally all felonies were capital, but early in the 19th century, mainly through the exertions of Sir Samuel Romilly, the severity of the law was mitigated by rapid steps in this respect. Larceny in a dwelling-house up to the value of 40s. was long a capital offence, with the result that juries, to save a prisoner's life, would often falsely find that valuable goods stolen were of the value of 39s.Sentence of death cannot be pronounced on or recorded against a young person under 18. [Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 53]...
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