(n.) The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.
(n.) A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand.
(v. t.) To acquit.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said that some voters would see Monday's acquittal as a positive step in the reforms recently enacted by the prime minister, Najib Razak.
(2) Because of multiple effusions of blood of variable age located at the child's body the stepmother was noticed and accused of assault and battery, but the trial ended in acquittal.
(3) Noye claimed the way the press had reported his acquittal in the Fordham case was "absolutely scandalous".
(4) Speaking outside Southwark crown court minutes after the acquittal by the eight-man, four-woman jury, Redknapp said he and his family had been through a "nightmare" as they waited for justice.
(5) After winning stage three, he maintains his advantage until the end of the race, despite the UCI revealing it would challenge the Spaniard's domestic acquittal on doping charges.
(6) Today's verdict ‑ the striking-off of Wakefield and Prof John Walker-Smith, who was in charge of the department of paediatric gastroenterology at the Royal Free hospital in London, where the research took place and the acquittal of the-then junior consultant Simon Murch, who had doubts about the project ‑ was about ethics and honesty, not science.
(7) If the law was changed, Macpherson predicted, fresh trials after acquittal would be exceptional and appropriate safeguards would be essential.
(8) Announcing that the acquittal on 1 November was erroneous, the Athens public prosecutor's office said the journalist should be retried by a higher misdemeanour court on the same charges.
(9) The appeal judges concluded that there was "sufficient reliable and substantial new evidence to justify the quashing of the acquittal and to order a new trial".
(10) "These writers keep getting tried, and we keep getting acquittals."
(11) Many will have been surprised by the officer's acquittal yesterday after a district judge concluded that the prosecution had failed to prove that he had not acted in "lawful self-defence."
(12) Yet not one had raised similar concerns about the acquittal of Nicholas Jacobs on a charge of murdering PC Keith Blakelock at Broadwater Farm the previous day ( Report , 10 April).
(13) The verdict is above all a triumph of state power, exemplified by the acquittal of the interior ministry's main commanders who oversaw police actions during the revolution.
(14) It is not uncommon for illiberal – in this case, deeply authoritarian – regimes to use a security threat (whether real, imagined, or self-created) as a pretext for singling out alleged ‘traitors’ and cracking down on civil society and individual critics.” Lawyer Khalid Bagirov, who is acting on behalf of all four activists, said the arrests are politically motivated, and added that their acquittal is nigh on “impossible”.
(15) The radical Islamist preacher Abu Qatada will not be able to return to Britain despite his surprise acquittal by the Jordanian state security court on terrorism conspiracy charges.
(16) He said the "adversarial nature of our criminal trial system in this country is designed to test the evidence given by witnesses; be they for the prosecution or defence so as to ensure safe conviction and acquittal of the innocent".
(17) "We were innocent when the Kremlin locked us up: it was not amnesty that we expected from Putin; we demand acquittal," she told the Guardian.
(18) If white Americans need black villains to feel superior in their decline as 2015 closes – and as the leading demagogue Republican candidate for president can confirm, they do – then innocent victims like Tamir will continue to be killed, and those who do so will be rewarded with acquittal, fame or even promotion .
(19) Rees, a convicted criminal, attacked the police's conduct after his acquittal claiming they had ignored 40 other suspects and added: "One disgraceful aspect is that senior police purported to take seriously people with mental health problems and career criminals merely trying to benefit themselves."
(20) They conclude that dismissal based on incompetence to stand trial became a substitute for acquittal based on the insanity plea under mens rea.
Evidence
Definition:
(n.) That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the evidence of our senses; evidence of the truth or falsehood of a statement.
(n.) One who bears witness.
(n.) That which is legally submitted to competent tribunal, as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it; means of making proof; -- the latter, strictly speaking, not being synonymous with evidence, but rather the effect of it.
(v. t.) To render evident or clear; to prove; to evince; as, to evidence a fact, or the guilt of an offender.
Example Sentences:
(1) The evidence suggests a multifactorial etiology for this problem.
(2) The only other evidence of Kopachi's existence is the primary school near the memorial.
(3) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
(4) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(5) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
(6) Disseminated CMV infection with multiorgan involvement was evident in 7 of 9 at postmortem examination.
(7) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
(8) We sought additional evidence for an inverse relationship between functional CTL-target cell affinity on the one hand, and susceptibility of the CTL-mediated killing to inhibition by alpha LFA-1 and alpha Lyt-2,3 monoclonal antibodies on the other hand.
(9) Immunocompetence was also evident when the cells from thymectomized donors were first incubated with thymus extract for 1 hr and subsequently tested for reactivity.
(10) The mothers of these babies do not show any evidence of alpha-thalassaemia.
(11) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
(12) Minimal levels were evident 16 weeks after irradiation; Hct then increased, but remained below preirradiation values.
(13) Evidence of fetal alcohol effects may be found for each outcome category.
(14) The present results provide no evidence for a clear morphological substrate for electrotonic transmission in the somatic efferent portion of the primate oculomotor nucleus.
(15) One patient with a large fistula angiographically had no oximetric evidence of shunt at cardiac catheterization.
(16) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
(17) We have previously shown that intratracheally instilled silica (quartz) produces both morphologic evidence of emphysema and small-airway changes, and functional evidence of airflow obstruction.
(18) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
(19) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(20) The condition is compared to extrahepatic and intrahepatic biliary atresia of man and evidence is presented for regarding this case to be one of extrahepatic origin.