Amnesty
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AMNESTY (from the Gr. a�vfaTia, oblivion), an act of grace by which the supreme power in a state restores those who may have been guilty of any offence against it to the position of innocent persons.
Amnesty
Related Category: Legal Terms and Concepts
(m´nst), in law, exemption from prosecution for criminal action. It signifies forgiveness and the forgetting of past actions.
Amnesty A pardon extended to a group or class of individuals by the government, usually before any trial or conviction.
Amnesty definition:
A general pardon extended by the government to those persons facing prosecution for, or convicted of specified criminal offences.
Amnesty and pardon, are very different. The former is an act of the sovereign power, the object of which is to efface and to cause to be forgotten, a crime or misdemeanor; the latter, is an act of the same authority, ...
Amnesty
n. malicious burning of property to destroy it or to harm some person; an offence of the degree of felony. Since the intent is malicious hence the deaths that might occur are considered murder.
Amnesty: 'Forgetting' the crime, e.g. if a car thief witnesses a murder, he will often be granted amnesty for his crime in order to allow him to testify against the murderer, ...
amnesty
n. a blanket abolition of an offense by the government, with the legal result that those charged or convicted have the charge or conviction wiped out.
When the pardon is general, either by an act of amnesty, or by the repeal of a penal law, it is not necessary to plead it, because the court is bound, ex officio, to take notice of it.
Definition - Noun
1 : willingness or ability to moderate the severity of a punishment (as a sentence)
2 : an act or instance of mercy, compassion, or forgiveness
see also amnesty commute pardon reprieve
Pronunciation'kle-m&n-sE ...
 See also: State, Law, Person, Civil, Criminal
  
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