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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 the public, excepting: (1) That to preserve the liberty of the subject, the committing any man to prison out of the realm is, by the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2, c. 2), made a pr'munire (see that title), unpardonable even by the Crown; and (2) that the sovereign cannot pardon where private justice is principally concerned in the prosecution of offenders--'non potest rex gratiam facere cum injuria et damno aliorum.'Neither at Common Law could the sovereign pardon an offence against a penal statute after information brought; for thereby the informer had acquired private property in his part of the penalty. But the Remission of Penalties Act, 1859, enables the Crown to remit penalties for offences, although payable to parties other than the Crown; and a special power...
Pardoning
Relating to pardon having or exercising the right to pardon willing to pardon merciful as the pardoning power a pardoning God...
pardon
pardon 1 : a release from the legal penalties of an offense 2 : an official warrant of remission of penalty as an act of clemency compare commute 3 : excuse or forgiveness for a fault or offense pardon vt ...
Pardonable
Admitting of pardon not requiring the excution of penalty venial excusable applied to the offense or to the offender as a pardonable fault or culprit...
Pardonableness
The quality or state of being pardonable as the pardonableness of sin...
Pardon
The act of pardoning forgiveness as of an offender or of an offense release from penalty remission of punishment absolution...
Pardonably
In a manner admitting of pardon excusably...
Pardoner
One who pardons...
Jury pardon
Jury pardon, means a rule that permits a jury to convict a defendant of a lesser offense than the offense charged if sufficient evidence exists to convict the defendant of either offense, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 862....
Pardoners
Pardoners, persons who carried about the Pope's indulgences, and sold them to any who would buy them....
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