(v. t.) To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite.
(v. t.) To pay for; to atone for.
(v. t.) To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge; -- now followed by of before the charge, formerly by from; as, the jury acquitted the prisoner; we acquit a man of evil intentions.
(v. t.) To clear one's self.
(v. t.) To bear or conduct one's self; to perform one's part; as, the soldier acquitted himself well in battle; the orator acquitted himself very poorly.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was, however, acquitted of criminal charges over this.
(2) Several top police commanders were acquitted, and Mubarak and his sons were found not guilty of corruption charges.
(3) An MRF sergeant was acquitted of attempted murder following a trial in 1973.
(4) She was then tried and acquitted on phone-hacking charges in 2014, leaving her to work out how to restart her career.
(5) 9 January 2012: Anwar is acquitted of sodomy charges.
(6) He was acquitted of assault by beating after a four-day trial in which his alleged victim, protester Nicola Fisher, declined to give evidence.
(7) After the murder he replaced Morgan at Southern Investigations to work alongside Jonathan Rees, who was tried for the murder and acquitted.
(8) While he was acquitted of rape, his remark that he took a shower after having sex with an HIV-positive woman to minimise the risk of infection caused fury.
(9) Francis Dixon, 38, from Stalybridge, was acquitted of the murder of David Short, the attempted murder of Hark and causing an explosion with a hand grenade.
(10) Colonel Jorge Mendonca was acquitted of failing to ensure that his men did not mistreat prisoners who were being held at a British detention centre in Basra, southern Iraq .
(11) In 2005 Mallah was acquitted of two terrorism offences but pleaded guilty to threatening to kill Asio officials.
(12) It’s about why this government chose to not upgrade Don Dale and to throw children in a derelict male prison.” Lawrence said the problems of juveniles in NT prisons had to be addressed “by a system that’s properly resourced, providing nothing less than best practice which is acquitted by fully qualified and professionally trained staff, creating appropriate behavioural programs and education for adolescent offenders of various types and backgrounds”.
(13) The 58-year-old, who recently served a four-month ban by the Football League for failing to pay tax on a yacht, was acquitted of customs offences on the Range Rover, which had been imported from the United States.
(14) Two recent high-profile cases have made the headlines: a doctor accused of administering drugs that hastened the deaths of seven elderly patients was acquitted, and France's high court authorised doctors to stop treating and feeding a young man who had been in a vegetative state on life support for six years.
(15) An inquest last year ruled that Harwood unlawfully killed him, but a trial jury acquitted the officer of manslaughter in July.
(16) If the various Ivan Milat murders had been tried individually he would almost certainly have been acquitted.
(17) Two years ago, Olmert was acquitted of separate corruption charges relating to his dealings with a US businessman, which had forced his resignation as prime minister in 2008.
(18) However, Azmi and others said that a series of terrorist cases in recent years in which Muslims had been suspected, investigated and often incarcerated for long periods before being acquitted had damaged trust in the police and, more broadly, the government.
(19) • This clarification was posted on 30 March 2011: An editing error in the footnote above wrongly suggested that all six men convicted, and later acquitted on appeal, of the Birmingham pub bombings were represented by Gareth Peirce.
(20) He directed them to acquit Payne of manslaughter and of intending to pervert the course of justice.
Liability
Definition:
(n.) The state of being liable; as, the liability of an insurer; liability to accidents; liability to the law.
(n.) That which one is under obligation to pay, or for which one is liable.
(n.) the sum of one's pecuniary obligations; -- opposed to assets.
Example Sentences:
(1) Liability of retransplanted syngeneic skin grafts to rejection could be almost entirely abolished by their exposure to 300 rads irradiation before placement on the intermediate host.
(2) Tata Steel, the owner of Britain’s largest steel works in Port Talbot, is in talks with the government about a similar restructuring for the British Steel pension scheme , which has liabilities of £15bn.
(3) These results are discussed in relation to previous reports suggesting a common addiction liability for both morphine and alcohol in inbred strains of animals.
(4) The precise aetiology of AHQS is still unresolved but it is concluded that it probably occurs post-natally and that some pigs have a genetic liability to develop the condition.
(5) But Burr admitted the bill would still allow companies to share directly with the NSA, and could potentially receive liability protections if information is shared “not electronically”.
(6) Two years later, the Guardian could point to reforms that owed much to what Ashley called his "bloody-mindedness" in five areas: non-disclosure of victims' names in rape cases; the rights of battered wives; the ending of fuel disconnections for elderly people; a royal commission on the legal profession; and civil liability for damages such as those due to thalidomide victims.
(7) For a substantial majority of the symptoms, the variance in liability was best explained by only genetic factors and environmental influences specific to the individual, where 33% to 46% of the variance was due to genetic factors.
(8) The authors describe several recent court cases in which judges have ignored or distorted acceptable clinical practices, conceivably creating a new liability standard whereby a tragic outcome is considered the result of failure to apply appropriate judgment.
(9) Whilst a charity may seem to have plenty of cash to meet its general liabilities, if the money is in the form of restricted funds it can only be used with permission of the donor or the Charity Commission .
(10) The Tony Abbott lecturing the American president on taxation fairness is, of course, the one who as Australian prime minister is presiding over policies of taxation amnesty for the richest Australians who have themselves offshored their hidden wealth, capping their taxable liability to merely the last four years.
(11) Recent court decisions since the landmark Wickline v. The State of California case in 1987 have addressed this issue of shared liability between payors and providers.
(12) We could be in a situation now where the potential liabilities are higher, which makes it more unlikely to find private investment.
(13) In summary, there are now available very potent narcotics, with small side effect liability.
(14) Continued escalation of claims frequency, however, and average paid-claim costs mean that other remedies will have to be sought if the professional liability problem is to be solved.
(15) But once legal liability cases began, evidence emerged from internal documents that Wyeth knew of far more cases of pulmonary hypertension than had been declared either to the FDA or to patients.
(16) In summary, the liability to exencephaly in SELH mice appears to be a multifactorial threshold trait, and it therefore resembles human neural tube defects in type of genetic etiology.
(17) This escape from liability occurs despite the fact that almost half of all traffic fatalities are attributable to alcohol.
(18) The infrastructure of New York that was once an "engineering marvel" is now a "liability", he said, urging a long-term rethink.
(19) To assess the physical dependence liability of dynorphin A analogs, mice were given repeated injections of various dynorphin A analogs twice daily for 5 days, and rats were given repeated administration of [N-methyl-Tyr1,N-methyl-Arg7,D-Leu8]dynorphin-A-(1-8) ethylamide (E-2078) twice daily for up to 7 weeks.
(20) The relative merits and liabilities for each wavelength and delivery system are discussed.