Mitigating - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Mitigation, abatement of anything penal, harsh, or painful. An address in mitigation is a speech made by the defendant or his counsel to the judge, after verdict or plea of guilty, and which may be followed by a speech in aggravation from the prosecuting counsel.By 27 & 28 Vict.c.110, justices were prohibited from mitigating minimum penalties in pursuance of any power of mitigating penalties conferred on such justices by any local or private Act of Parliament; but this Act is repealed, as to England, by the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, which gives an al-most unlimited power of mitigating such penalties as may be imposed by justices. See also the Probation of Offenders Act,1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 17).Mitigation, means measures aimed at reducing the impact or effects of a disaster. [Gujarat State Disaster Management Act, 2003, s. 2(m)]...
mitigating circumstance
mitigating circumstance : a circumstance in the commission of an act that lessens the degree of criminal culpability [was convicted of manslaughter rather than murder because of mitigating circumstances] ;also : a circumstance or factor relating to an offense or defendant that does not bear on the question of culpability but that receives consideration by the court esp. in lessening the severity of a sentence [the mitigating circumstance of the defendant's terminal illness] compare aggravating circumstance ...
mitigation of damages
mitigation of damages 1 : a doctrine in tort and contract law: a person injured by another is required to mitigate his or her losses resulting from the injury [whether the patient shares any fault and whether the patient has satisfied the requirements of mitigation of damages "D'Aries v. Schell, 644 A.2d 134 (1994)"] ;also : an affirmative defense based on this doctrine called also avoidable consequences 2 : a reduction in the amount of damages awarded a party ...
mitigator
mitigator : one that mitigates ;specif : mitigating circumstance [a statutory ] mit·i·ga·to·ry [mi-ti-gə-tȯr-ē] adj ...
Mitigation
The act of mitigating or the state of being mitigated abatement or diminution of anything painful harsh severe afflictive or calamitous as the mitigation of pain grief rigor severity punishment or penalty...
mitigate
mitigate -gat·ed -gat·ing vt : to lessen or minimize the severity of [what actions the State took to the hazardous conditions "Estate of Arrowwood v. State, 894 P.2d 642 (1995)"] [factors that the crime] see also mitigation of damages compare aggravate vi : to lessen or minimize the severity of one's losses or damage [a failure to ] mit·i·ga·tion [mi-tə-gā-shən] n mit·i·ga·tive [mi-tə-gā-tiv] adj ...
Mitigable
Admitting of mitigation that may be mitigated...
Mitigant
Tending to mitigate mitigating lenitive...
Mitigate
To make less severe intense harsh rigorous painful etc to soften to meliorate to alleviate to diminish to lessen as to mitigate heat or cold to mitigate grief...
mitigating
serving to reduce blame of situations as mitigating factors mitigating circumstances Opposite of aggravating...
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