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Mitigation

counsel. By 27 & 28 Vict.c.110, justices were prohibited from mitigating minimum penalties in pursuance of any power of mitigating penalties

substances intended to be used for or in the treatment, mitigation or prevention of disease in human beings or animals. [Medicinal

Tending to mitigate or alleviate mitigative

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in calculating a sentence by various factors (as aggravating or mitigating circumstances) b : a unit used in the pricing of

Tending to mitigate mitigating lenitive

by the court esp. in imposing a death sentence compare mitigating circumstance

not imminent. Battered woman's syndrome is also used as a mitigating factor in sentencing.

unconstitutional, however. A sentencing judge is required to consider any mitigating circumstances before imposing the death penalty for a crime.

mitigator : one that mitigates ;specif : mitigating circumstance [a statutory ] mit·i·ga·to·ry [mi-ti-gə-tȯr-ē] adj

Having the quality of softening or mitigating as pain or acrimony assuasive emollient

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